my wild guess is up to 1,000 psi........and that's a very wild guess. why do you ask ? On page 47.9 of the Bentley manual, for checking the brake pressure regulator.......( which I'd call more of a pressure limiting valve for the rear brakes ) they say ( after attaching pressure gauges front and rear ) ......... 'increase front brake pressure to 1,450 lbs. The pressure gauge on the rear brake should read 793 to 943 psi." I was in the ball park more or less. why, hoses bursting ? fwiw, in working to get an SVX Syncro Vanagon with SA front brakes and rear discs, to work really well in the brake department, I worked with a racing brake company on it for a while. They told me 'really high pressures are not a good thing, hydraulically speaking." Perhaps 2,000 psi would be a practical limit is what I kind of gathered. Scott www.turbovans.com
----- Original Message ----- From: "Mike Collum" <collum@VERIZON.NET> To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM> Sent: Friday, October 10, 2008 6:27 PM Subject: Brake hydraulic pressure
> Does anyone have a feel for how much hydraulic pressure is in a > Vanagon's brake lines during hard braking? > > Mike |
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