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ZUKIWORLD Discussion Forum => Suzuki 4x4 Forum => Topic started by: 37kicker on December 09, 2005, 02:08:22 PM
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is a line-lock as good as a manuel e-brake. lookin for some opinions?? stan
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works good stan. we put one on freds sammi after strechin it.
Ross
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is a line-lock as good as a manuel e-brake. lookin for some opinions??  stan
They work pretty good in offroad applications. Apply the brakes, engage the line lock by pushing a switch or button, release the brake. You don't move. They are very helpful in holding a position on an obstacle while shifting and clutching to select a better gear ratio and working the throttle.
However, in an on-road driving emergency where the truck is in motion or you have lost use of the hydraulic brakes, line locks are worse than useless.
Offroad use only.
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a couple of the tow trucks we service at my shop use the line lock for the e brakes. up here e brake cables dont last too long before they stop working so this is a much more reliable system.
derek
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what i'm tryin to find is another option to disk/drum-rear brake. saturn are disk/disk. but are big $$ new thats what we' ve been using . is there any other disk/ disk rear brake that is less $$ than saturn brakes i like the manuel e-brake on the saturn. but line-locks are easy to install. the j-yard is running out of saturn stuff! stan
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Try Maxima rear calipers, tons of them at the
wreckers, I found them looking for Saturn ones,
never did find any Saturn rear disk/calipers.
Wild
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i'll check it out :) thanks stan
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a couple of the tow trucks we service at my shop use the line lock for the e brakes. up here e brake cables dont last too long before they stop working so this is a much more reliable system.
derek
Just to clarify here so some goof reading this ends up doing something stupid:
There is a difference between Emergency Brake (eg. E-brake) and Parking Brakes.
A Parking brake is used to keep a stopped (parked?) vehicle from moving. A line-lock Parking brake would be excellent for a tow truck -- especially when the truck is pulling a vehicle out of a ditch. Over time a mechanical, cable-driven emergency brake would suffer from water damage and become unreliable. A line-Lock Parking brake would not be prone to a slow failure and would work as good as the braking system itself. And, it could be set up to lock up all four wheels.
Heck, a line-lock parking brake on the Electronic News Gathering (ENG) vans at work woul;d benefit from line lock parking brakes. If wired properly, it would be danged hard to move a truck while the transmitting mast is raised and the line locks were engaged.
An Emergency brake conjurs up the idea of plummeting down a steep grade trying to stop a vehicle with bad hydraulic brakes. You grab on the handle, pull and pray. Line locks would be pretty useless at this point as emergency brakes.
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For what it's worth, your Emergency brake
is pretty worthless at that point too, might
be why they are called Parking Brakes now.
You would have to be in a real emergency
to even think about using it for a failed brake system.
Wild
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Hi Stan,
I am pretty sure Wildgoody and I had a thread on this a while back - Toyota MR2 or front 80-82 disk brake calipers have a screw type actuator - I used the MR2 set up on ZeusZuki and it pulls up with 37 wranglers pretty good.
Good luck ;)
ZeusZuki.
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Nissan 300z:
http://bbs.zuwharrie.com/content/topic,3108.0.html
Stu