RE: RE:[ihc] About those Allisons

[Steven Stegmann <steve.stegmann@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Scouts have emergency brakes?????  I didn't know that.
 Mine has a pedal but it has no discernable effect in
reverse, just a tad in forward.

I know my brakes are fine for driving that's not a
problem.  

One problem with the Scout e brakes are the direction
changes that the cable makes over a nice large steel
fairleads.  90 deg change of direction, both cables. 

I've often thought that if thaose fairleads were
replaced with pulleys, or some other way to guide the
cable, it might work.  Both my Ford trucks have
basically the same arrangement, the only thing they
lack is that 90 degree change of direction for a bare
steel cable over a plain steel fairlead.

Steve
--- "Urvig, Chad A" <chad.urvig@domain.elided> wrote:

> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Ryan Moore [mailto:baradium@domain.elided]
> > Sent: Monday, September 20, 2004 9:37 PM
> > To: Allan Ericson; Urvig, Chad A;
> ihc-digest@domain.elided
> > Subject: Re: RE:[ihc] About those Allisons
> > I think he meant it'll hold the bus from moving if
> the engine
> > is shut off
> > and it sitting there.  Thus, if you lost brakes,
> you could put the
> > transmission in nuetral and use the parking brake
> to slow down.
> >
> > The thing about the engine moving it isn't fair,
> even a tahoe
> > or suburban
> > can pull past it's parking brake or e-brake.  ;)
> >
> > -Ryan
> >
> Yeah, that's what I meant....it's a parking brake,
> not a driving brake
> :)  Yes, I can over come it with the 8.2L in my bus,
> but I have also
> driven my Scout with the e-brake on and not noticed
> right away.  I think
> in something smaller than a 28,000 lb bus it should
> be a pretty
> effective parking brake (as long as you are not
> trying to drive with it
> on).  Something like that would be nice to have on
> my Scout....my
> e-brakes have never worked that well, especially
> after going through
> mud.
> 
> Chad
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