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Subject:Re: Brake Fade
From:Rocket J Squirrel
Date:Tue, 6 Sep 2011 14:49:42 -0700

On 09/06/2011 02:17 PM, Don Hanson wrote:

>    A fully loaded camper with an auto tranny...that is near the limit for
> stock brakes...that is why people change to Big Brakes....a little extra
> safety margin...

A-yup. Add a small trailer loaded with camping gear to the mix, and you
can really feel how soft the brakes are. I'd so add a big brake kit but
unless I'm missing something, they are beyond my budgetary limitations.

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Jack "Rocket j Squirrel" Elliott
Bend, Ore.
1984 Westfalia. A poor but proud people.
1971 "Ladybug"-brand utility trailer ca. 1972 from a defunct company in
San Clemente, Calif., now repurposed as The Westrailia.

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