I was only talking about that particular failure mode. Any upgrade to the
brakes is time and money well spent.
Bill
Paul Quin wrote:
> I hear you.
>
> But my Rover is 7 times older than that Jeep. One small pin hole anywhere
> in the hydraulics and there goes all of my braking. The transmission brake
> is still there, but having used it once to stop (just to see...), I wouldn't
> want to rely on it.
>
> Paul.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "ynotink" <ynotink@qwest.net>
> To: <lro@koan.team.net>
> Sent: Sunday, January 05, 2003 8:06 PM
> Subject: Re: [lro] Could be worse... Little Rover content...
>
> >
> > I wouldn't lose sleep worrying about it. Just compare the axles in
> question
> > sometime. The Jeep axle tubes look like a couple sticks of spaghetti in
> > comparison.
> >
> > A failure like that would indicate that the weenie axle tube was flexing
> under
> > the load from braking.
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