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- From: drew@ophelia.cs.colorado.edu (Drew Eckhardt)
- Subject: Brakes
- Message-ID: <1992Aug31.074111.14570@colorado.edu>
- Sender: news@colorado.edu (The Daily Planet)
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- Organization: University of Colorado at Boulder
- Date: Mon, 31 Aug 1992 07:41:11 GMT
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- 1. Is having both cylinders on a dual master cylinder fed together (ie,
- through a + connector which then feeds front and rear brakes)
- acceptable?
-
- What is the normal configuration for a dual master? With
- one cylinder feeding front, the other rear? If this is the
- case, then how much is front/rear brake bias affected by
- different master cylinders?
-
- 2. I drove up to a friends house at ~8000 feet over the weekend.
- At ~5000 feet my brakes work fine. At ~8000 feet, when
- still cold, they had almost no stopping power. This is
- defined as "If I was idling in gear, and had the brake pedal
- all the way on the floor, I didn't really slow down."
-
- Back down to ~5000 feet, and everything was fine again.
-
- Our last weekend camping trip was up a > 12,000 foot pass
- (single lane 4wd road with no guard rails, hair pin
- turns, etc) (I wasn't driving :-) ) so this is something
- I need to figure out "real soon".
-
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