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.
-- 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. Sent from my kitchen. |
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