Brake failure - Pedal to floor

[richard waters]

Dave,
How about combining the two and have a booster pump that fills
your large reserve tank? Maybe that would help get down
a mountain for those folks that drive way up there.

Richard Waters '76 PB, Troy, MI (where the land is mostly flat)

> Why mess with vacuum pumps and various switching circuits when a vacuum
> tank (30" X 4" pvc pipe inside front cross member) will give you enough
> vacuum for at least a half dozen full stops without the engine running, and
> will always be available without having to turn on a pump.
>
> What am I missing?

>

 

[dave lowry]

Why mess with vacuum pumps and various switching circuits when a vacuum
tank (30" X 4" pvc pipe inside front cross member) will give you enough
vacuum for at least a half dozen full stops without the engine running, and
will always be available without having to turn on a pump.

What am I missing?

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Dave (& Dege), '76 Royale /_][__] [_] | "SR JAMES"
Santa Barbara, CA *0-------OO--* (our hobby)

 

[richard waters]

Dave,
I didn't mean to imply that you should intentionally coast
to the bottom of a mountain if you had an engine failure.
I merely meant that the vacuum pump feature of the new
air compressor might be a good supplement to the large
storage capacity of the tank you constructed out of PVC
pipe.

My problem is I get in trouble when I think of wild things
and then write them here on the GMC net for all to read!
Of course the first order of business if the engine should
stop is to get the coach stopped safely. Having a redundant
source of vacuum created by a backup vacuum pump
shouldn't hurt the process of stopping.

Richard Waters

> Richard,
>
> If my engine quits in the mountains I'm certainly NOT going to try to coast
> to the bottom. With the loss of power steering, the last thing I want to do
> is head down a mountain road. All I want to do is find a reasonable place
> to get off the road so I can put my cell phone, CB etc. to work.
>
> This may not be everyone's choice, but would certainly be mine in the
> unlikely event the 455 quit at the top of the hill.
>
> Please don't be foolish. Get it stopped off the road and get it fixed. I'd
> hate to hear anyone lost it on a mountain road trying to coast to the
> bottom with a dead engine, brakes or no.
>
> Off the soap box.
>
> ___________
> Dave (& Dege), '76 Royale /_][__] [_] | "SR JAMES"
> Santa Barbara, CA *0-------OO--* (our hobby)

 

[dave lowry]

Richard,

If my engine quits in the mountains I'm certainly NOT going to try to coast
to the bottom. With the loss of power steering, the last thing I want to do
is head down a mountain road. All I want to do is find a reasonable place
to get off the road so I can put my cell phone, CB etc. to work.

This may not be everyone's choice, but would certainly be mine in the
unlikely event the 455 quit at the top of the hill.

Please don't be foolish. Get it stopped off the road and get it fixed. I'd
hate to hear anyone lost it on a mountain road trying to coast to the
bottom with a dead engine, brakes or no.

Off the soap box.

___________
Dave (& Dege), '76 Royale /_][__] [_] | "SR JAMES"
Santa Barbara, CA *0-------OO--* (our hobby)