Why not combine the gocart caliper with a motorcycle front disc?
Why not combine the gocart caliper with a motorcycle front disc?
VW Passat/A4/A6/Jetta/Golf and the Mazda3/5/6 have a cable operated caliper parking brake. You could plug the hydraulics and use one of those. I haven't looked at one but maybe a Focus with rear discs has the same setup.
Fiat's have the handbrake built into the caliper.. unlike most cars that use the inside of the hat as the handbrake. The fiat system is not the best.. but it will slow, stop, and hold the car.. just not as fast as most car inspectors like
Look at Land Rovers in your local junkyard. They have a self contained brake drum on the rear driveshaft, cable operated. You can probably get a complete unit for cheap.
In reply to Sonic:
there are actually land rovers in my local junkyard. I'm gonna have to check this out!
also heavy duty (3/4 ton and up) ford trucks had parking brakes on the driveshafts
I'm not sure which "ford trucks" youre talking about, but I happen to be a ford truck enthusiast, and I can vouch that at least since the 1960's, 3/4 and 1 ton ford trucks have not used driveline brakes. And the chances of finding pre'60 stuff in a junkyard, for less than the $60 wilwood brake, is slim to none, let alone finding parts for them.
How about just refitting the axle with the original drums? I'm sure plenty of people in the ORV crowd have stock 1960s jeep axles drum to drum collecting dust.
In reply to andrave:
Then maybe it's only the really heavy duty stuff, I remember seeing the original TIV (ford truck based) on storm chasers having to stop because their driveshaft parking brake caught fire.
back in the day street rodders been using a simple go cart cable pull puck type caliper w/ adapter to driveshaft/ small rotor.
sorry, didn't read all the posts if it been covered
fasted58 wrote: back in the day street rodders been using a simple go cart cable pull puck type caliper w/ adapter to driveshaft/ small rotor. sorry, didn't read all the posts if it been covered
Yeah and speedway still sells that setup, using the wilwood spot calipers and a special rotor that bolts onto a ford 9" yoke. But I think you could piece one together just as well with the spot caliper and a motorcycle rotor or something.
as for the TIV burning the driveshaft brake, I'm not sure, I thought they had gutted an old interntional uhaul truck to make the original TIV, I'll have to google it.
Ahh just googled: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tornado_Intercept_Vehicle
Based on an old body style F-450. Those used a 10 lug rear end with disc brakes and the brake is technically a driveline brake, but they were all 2wd and its a drum brake designed into the tail of the transmission. I'm not sure it would be a good candidate to retrofit to another application. I never realized these used a driveline brake.
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