In a message dated 8/13/99 6:56:18 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
safesix@worldnet.att.net writes:
<< On a pickup truck, my feeling is that you wil pretty much always need a
proportioning valve, you have to reduce pressure in the rear or the brakes
will lock up prematurely if there's no load in the bed.
Jack / Winter Park FL
----- Original Message -----
From: Jeff Davis <jsd51@hotmail.com>
To: <oletrucks@autox.team.net>
Sent: Friday, August 13, 1999 7:31 PM
Subject: [oletrucks] Master Cylinder again!
> Reading all this good Q & A on brakes made me think of a guestion of
my
> own. If running disc brakes all the way around do you need the
proportioning
> valve? If so, are you trying to get more braking out of the front or out
of
> the rear? Since I have this setup and a mastercylinder is in the future
> figured now would be as good a time as any to do the investigation. Thanks
> in ADvance for all the good info. in this list.
>
> Jeff Davis
> '51 custom.
> >>
Just to add some more, my '89 IROCZ has 4-wheel disc brakes, and a
proprtioning valve.
Mike
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