Opinion on leaving out the parking brake?

[Thadious]

Not sure what the terrain looks like everywhere you've been, but around here we have quite the hills and often we have to park on them (well, the side of the road going up or down them ). I've often found in the past that even in gear, an tranny with enough rotational pressure on it will cause a minor amount of slippage as air always slowly leaks by a cylinder wall over time... In both auto and manual trannys I've seen the vehicle "lurch" when parked.

Regardless of where you live, IMO, leaving out an "emergency" or "parking" brake... whatever you want to call it = a bad idea... especially after you've spent alot of money building the truck only to leave something like this out.

Kind of reminds me of a friend that put a $5000 stereo system in his car, but couldn't be bothered to put a $200 alarm system in it. Let's just say that "someone" has a really nice system for real cheap, and it's not him (or me for that matter).

Ounce of prevention = a pound of cure, but to each his own. It's law here so wouldn't even be open for discussion.

Just my two bits,
Ted.

[MrDude_1]

Originally Posted by Thadious

Not sure what the terrain looks like everywhere you've been, but around here we have quite the hills and often we have to park on them

I thought i saw a hill here once, but it turned out to be a rabbit hole.


for what its worth everyone ive worked out my rear brakes now.... I have an internal drum parking/emergency/slide-turn brake, and 11" discs.
nice thing is the passenger side parking brake line points out back, and the drivers side points forward... so i can run the passenger line around the back/bottom, and then the two lines can run parallel down the drivers side of the frame.. nice clean install.

thanks for the thoughts on the subject...