Brake failure

[TodFitch]

What? Another place disappearing?

In this case it is because health and age related issues. At least the parts are going to a place where they are still for sale, etc. Just not as local for me. I guess I could have Paul Flaming be my buying agent as he is pretty close to Fresno.

[meadowbrook]

My Meadowbrook has had all brake lines, shoes, wheel cylinders and brake pipes replaced by me when I got it and also I bought an adapter that allows the use of a 68 Ford Mustang dual circuit master cylinder.

Sure it is certainly not up to modern cars standards and required a determine push to stop, but it's acceptable.

I did buy a new parking brake band and it holds the car pretty solidly, but again, I can overpower it with the engine. But it is acceptable.

I do carry a little chock in case I need to park on a hill.

[TodFitch]

A quick returns on old car karma. . .

 

A couple weeks ago, just before my handbrake band failed, I mailed some brake tubing clips to a fellow restoring a '32 Dodge. No charge, I had some extra and he had been unsuccessful at finding a supplier for an exact match to the vintage ones on his car.

 

Now different old Plymouth owner is sending me a hand brake band off of a '34 Plymouth (part numbers match and the photo looks right). Cost is reimbursement for shipping.

 

This is one part of the hobby I enjoy, fellow old car owners helping each other out.

 

Now when the new lining and rivets arrive, I can get everything back together and back on the road. Looks like the most expensive part of this will be the new floor mat (the current one I cobbled together about 40 years ago and it fell apart as I removed it from the car).