73m819

Bjron, true about on the slope with a strandard ebrake, but i have delt with some loaders that weigh in about 45000#, thay have a disk ebrake we had to release the ebrake by hand to move them , also some heavy trucks, the same, these disk ebreaks hold the heavy iron even on a steep grade. true in muddy slope conditions about nothing is going to keep the trucks from sliding, other then that in normul conditions, why not

ive seen disk ebrakes in both hyd. , spring, and air set, the hyd. setup needs a accumulator to set the brake in case of loss of hyd. pressure, also hyd., spring, and air release, most of the systems had a combination . i realy dont see why such a system could not be built for our trucks, a big disk mounted where the drum ebrake is now ,not a little disk but a 16" or so, with its own master cylinder, using a trucks air spring brake can to activate it, no air for what ever reason , the spring brake sets which it turn works the master cylinder and sets the disk ebrake. this all would happen in less then a second, spring or air could be used as a pull back release once the air spring brake has pressure. the air spring brake can/master cylinder combo could be mounted in the frame with just the hyd. line running to the calibers and a air line if air pull back is used

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Ron
Gainesville, Ga.
vietnam-1/66-8/68
42 5t? autocar tractor, gone
43m20, 12t, converted to tractor, gone
52m52, tractor, gone
73m819, tractor/wrecker AKA Wrecked Wrecker
77xm977 10t 8x8, to be a xm 983 sold
What ever else that can be drug home
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