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Re: Dual Brake Circuit Master Cylinder

To: "Jim Harrell" <Jim.Harrell@ost.dot.gov>, <triumphs@Autox.Team.Net>
Subject: Re: Dual Brake Circuit Master Cylinder
From: "Bill Hooper" <hooper@rf.capitolweb.com>
Date: Thu, 15 May 1997 00:44:58 -0500
> From: Jim Harrell <Jim.Harrell@ost.dot.gov>
> To: Return requested <triumphs@autox.team.net>
> Subject: Dual Brake Circuit Master Cylinder
> Date: Wednesday, May 14, 1997 11:54 AM

>      I have recently acquired a 1960 TR-3A and am in the process of going

>      through the various systems to make sure everything's "up to snuff"
so 
>      I can enjoy the car on the road (versus in the garage).

Cautious person + British Car => Prozac prescription

>      I'd like to know if any of the list members are aware of a brake 
>      master cylinder upgrade/swap/conversion that would provide true dual

>      brake circuit capability for my TR-3A?  I have made this upgrade to
my 
>      356 Porsches and I enjoy the piece of mind it brings while driving. 

>      There's nothing quite like the sinking feeling one gets when they 
>      depress the brake pedal and it goes to the floor while the car 
>      proceeds along its merry way because a rubber brake hose has broken 
>      and the whole system drains!

That's what the handbrake is for!  Whee!  Stay awake!
Most here have probably driven without brake fluid for shamefully
protracted intervals.
Leave the car alone. 
It will make you bugeyed, twitchy & hyper with or without dual braking
circuitry.


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