Interesting. What cars is this on? I helped my neighbor do the brakes
on his Lexus, and the rear discs had drums AS THEIR CENTER SECTION!!!
It was weird! And hideously efficient. The drum parts were about as
large as the rear drums on an A1/A2 VW.
-Simon

On Tuesday, November 26, 2002, at 05:46  PM, H R wrote:
>
> As an example, some high performance cars are enabled with two
> brake systems on each rear wheel.
> Each wheel has one disk brake for normal driving/braking,
> and one minature drum brake, about 1/3 the size of the vanagon rear
> drum
> brake. The mini drum brake is only activated by cable, as
> emergency/hand brake.
> Cars with those brake systems are usually quite powerful.

Interesting. What cars is this on? I helped my neighbor do the brakes
on his Lexus, and the rear discs had drums AS THEIR CENTER SECTION!!!
It was weird! And hideously efficient. The drum parts were about as
large as the rear drums on an A1/A2 VW.
-Simon

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