Two Parking Brake Levers?

[deucestudios]

Thanks Andy, experience is always good to hear. So basically the whole shoe/cylinder assembly rotated inside the drum?
I'll be curious to see the limits of it's holding power too.
I had another not so great thought about it. If I lock 1 tire, I'm putting 2x the rotational speed to the other side, so even in the perfect scenario, my rear/front wheel speed is going to be wrong.
Testing to come this weekend.
Still I haven't done anything that's not reversible, so if it doesn't work, I'll just eat some crow then switch back to OEM.

 

[Andy in Pa.]

Thanks Andy, experience is always good to hear. So basically the whole shoe/cylinder assembly rotated inside the drum?
I'll be curious to see the limits of it's holding power too.
I had another not so great thought about it. If I lock 1 tire, I'm putting 2x the rotational speed to the other side, so even in the perfect scenario, my rear/front wheel speed is going to be wrong.
Testing to come this weekend.
Still I haven't done anything that's not reversible, so if it doesn't work, I'll just eat some crow then switch back to OEM.

Yep, the whole assembly rotated on the backing plate. I would have expected the pads to slip before that happened...

Not sure what you mean by 2x the rotating speed. When in 4L, all the tires will get the same amount of torque... you'll just be holding the one slipping with the e-brake handle.

 

[tbburg]

I had another not so great thought about it. If I lock 1 tire, I'm putting 2x the rotational speed to the other side, so even in the perfect scenario, my rear/front wheel speed is going to be wrong.

Think about it. This is what is happening anyway When you grab a cutting brake to stop tire spin, you're preventing this from happening. If you manage to hold the brake up long enough to make the tire with traction spin(assuming the drum on the other side can lock that wheel) you'll probably just spin the opp. tire.(if the right tire was spinning before, now the left spins.)

May be a bit of a learning curve using this, but I don't think it'll be a huge problem.

Looks good by the way. :thumbup:

 

[Monster Mopar]

Looking good. A quick sugestion on a way to get around having to have the ratcheting system for the e-brake.... I would modify each handle so you could push in the ratchet release and then have a button that would hold the ratchet release button depressed. When you're done wheeling release the button and then you're ebrake handles would lock into place.