Re: Most dangerous braking situation...

["Tom Harais" <tjhemh@domain.elided>]

Guys:

General consensus is rear wheel lock up before fronts is to be avoided at
all costs. 

Rear wheel lock up tends to cause rapid spin out that you cannot control.
Front wheel lockup causes loss of steering, but vehicle tends to just
"slide forward" in a straight ahead fashion. Go check any brake system book
such as HP's.

On top of that, due to the physics involved (wheight shift) the front
brakes are doing the majority of the stopping in the first place. That,
combined with different operating pressure requirements between disks and
drums, is why we have a proportioning valve in the first place.


Tom H.