Really, my ten plus years in the Army, and Army Guard I would have never known that. However, if you go back through the thread, and read the post, I have said several times, I do not intend to remove the mechanical parking brake. I sometimes exit the Jeep when it is in rather off camber positions to hook up the winch. At some of these times, I just want a little extra braking. The down side to a chock block, is you have to exit the vehicle to use it. I just got back from Iraq, and we had one duece that the TC had to get out and put the chock block down every time you stopped because the band brake didn't work, and maintence had more important things to do.xuv-this said:i like the idea, but not for an ebrake.
that's right. some hemmit's have them, too. they shine in loose sand. but every unit in the army mandates chock blocks when the vehicle is parked. any vehicle. for the 5 min. it takes to make a couple from a wood block; vs. risking all the $ and time put into our rigs...i would make a couple. plus it doubles as a lift spacer for a jack.
Draveshaft disc parking brake
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that's kinda funny. i guess some things don't change...cruzmyxj said:
we used them in addition to the crappy parking brakes. but i have experienced the joy of laughing at my top (who always bitched about putting them down) for forgetting his at 3:00 one morning while lining up the convoy, and the ebrake on his humv failed. it backed down about 15m into my 113. my squad leader was tc and asked me if we were moving. it broke his soft top and woke up the lazy medic in the back. then he later bitched at his driver (who was at pldc) for not doing pm on it.
