Date: Tue, 8 Apr 2008 10:36:12 -0700
Reply-To: Scott Daniel - Shazam <scottdaniel@TURBOVANS.COM>
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From: Scott Daniel - Shazam <scottdaniel@TURBOVANS.COM>
Subject: Re: Foot actuated parking brake
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It wouldn't be impossible to do, but a lot of effort.
Hardest part might be extending the parking brake cable to reach the new
location.
I'd get a foot operated parking brake out of a Mercedes benz personally.
But so much effort and fabrication, plus making the dash wiring harder to
work on, and the fuse box is right there in the way - it would be a massive
job, like not practical.
For a customer I'd tell them it would be quite a few hundred dollars job.
If you need to fill up the floor area, just make a box around the parking
brake lever.
I always take out driver's swivels - unless you are going to do the 'two
kids facing each other with the small table between the front seat', which
is what it's designed for, the driver's seat is useless to me - adds weight,
comes with a thinner seat on them.......just kinda useless except for the
one purpose it was designed for.
I don't even like having to reach further down to latch the seatbelt that's
further down there on a driver's swivel set up. I put that whole mess back
to standard driver's seat configuration.
I thought of the old Bus style too. Never liked that set up.
The 'pull up' right next to the driver's seat is the best overall p-brake
deal in my opinion. Only the later 85 and up parking brake is really decent
too, the earlier ones are pretty lame. Nice example of marginal VW
engineering that shows up now and then.
-----Original Message-----
From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf Of
Florian Speier
Sent: Tuesday, April 08, 2008 9:00 AM
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: Re: Foot actuated parking brake
How do you want to do handbrake turns with a foot actuated brake?
Seems like a major loss to me.
Florian
On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 8:46 AM, Keith Ovregaard <kovregaard@comcast.net>
wrote:
> Not that it's any of your business, Mike, but that's my girlfriends
> favorite place to... oh, never mind.
>
> But seriously, I am trying to build a subwoofer box with a cup holder/
> storage area and that darn brake handle is making it rather difficult.
> And it gets in the way of swiveling the driver seat, not that I do
> that too often.
>
> Lots of cars and trucks have those foot pedal brakes one the left side
> near the door pillar, which would work great on the Vanagon. Even the
> old buses had the brake in a better place, although it would stick out
> of the dash a ways when it was in park mode.
>
> Keith O.
> 90 Westy Syncro "VikingWagen"
>
> On Apr 8, 2008, at 3:04 AM, Mike wrote:
>
> What are you doing on the floor between the seats?
> >
> > Mike B.
> >
> > ----- Original Message ----- From: "Keith Ovregaard" <
> > kovregaard@COMCAST.NET
> > >
> > To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
> > Sent: Tuesday, April 08, 2008 3:35 AM
> > Subject: Foot actuated parking brake
> >
> >
> > Just wondered if anyone has ever successfully modified the parking
> > > brake to a foot-pedal type. How I would love to loose the hand brake
> > > that always gets in the way of things...
> > > Keith O.
> > > 90 Westy Syncro "VikingWagen"
> > >
> >
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