Re: Brake advice needed
It seems to me that the brake shoes and the drums are a common denominator between hydraulic and mechanical. It also seems to me that those two things are what does the stopping of the car.
The mechanical linkage versus the hydraulic tubes, hoses, master and brake cylinders are just the delivery system. Properly adjusted, the mechanical brakes can be just as even as hydraulic.
Granted, hydraulic brakes put pressure to each brake cylinder equally, and therefore require less adjusting and maintenance, but.....
Do you really gain that much or anything in stopping ability by going to juice? The only thing I can think of is that if you go to 39 juice brakes, they were probably made for V-8's and were maybe better in that regard. Which brings up another question. If you're going to go to all the trouble to change over, wouldn't it be even better to go with disk brakes?
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