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03-22-2006, 02:57 AM
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Woogeroo's Wilde Ride - aka dude where's all my brakes!?
Woogeroo's Wild Ride - aka where's all my brakes!?
Disneyworld has nothing on me! So I was on the way to the hank III show in downtown Atlanta in big blue '65 c10 truck... vrooommm.... I go around a turn and hit the brake pedal... nothing. as scooby would say: ruh roh! I grab emergency brake(good thing I installed that)... brrrrrrrr stop. now. what in the.... !#$!?? I'm wiggling pedal... has goofy feel to it... I reach down and the end of the threaded rod thign - that twists in to the part that botl to the pedal... well it ain't connected no mo'. so I go to limp it on back home (half mile) with e brake and flashers(good thing I wired them up also) on... long scary story short : slowly coming down the hill going toa 3 way , left or right... riding the e brake I pull on it and the cable tbue/sheathing is no longer being grabbed by that bracket under the steering column - therfore the brake cable is having no tension on it... oh no - here we go again! so I do some fast thinkin' - go around the turn.. and turn the wheel backa nd forth over the road trying to break momentum... which helped... then I rolled it up into the front yard which is a hill thankfully. yeesh. that was a lill too excitin' for me. The Hank III concert was a lot of fun tho'. I guess I have more wrenchin' in my near future... any tips, tricks, things to double, triple check is welcome... -W |
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03-22-2006, 06:19 PM
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Re: Woogeroo's Wilde Ride - aka dude where's all my brakes!?
Well, it had a happy ending, you made it to Hank III...
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03-23-2006, 12:07 AM
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Re: Woogeroo's Wilde Ride - aka dude where's all my brakes!?
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03-23-2006, 09:32 PM
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Re: Woogeroo's Wilde Ride - aka dude where's all my brakes!?
Nice story
 Glad you made it home safe 
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03-23-2006, 09:37 PM
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Re: Woogeroo's Wilde Ride - aka dude where's all my brakes!?
its time to change to a dual mastercylinder.
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03-24-2006, 08:02 PM
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Re: Woogeroo's Wilde Ride - aka dude where's all my brakes!?
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I have one. a new one even. -W |
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