Front Parking Brakes, was Re: pads/disks for 90

[Steve Sears]

Believe it or not, my 1962 DKW (F11) Junior's parking brakes actuate on the
front brakes - the cables even have a grease zirk fitting to keep them from
seizing.  Of course, the brake drums don't rotate with the steering -
they're mounted onto the sides of the transmission.  I guess we should have
expected UFO brakes, Brake Bombs, etc. from this company - VW couldn't have
kicked all of the DKW engineers out...right? (Just the ones involved with
the six-cylinder two-stroke engine)
Cheers!
Steve Sears
1987 5kTQ
1980 5k
1962 and '64 Auto Union DKW Junior deLuxes
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Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2001 23:54:57 -0400
Subject: Re: pads/disks for 90
From: Larry C Leung <l.leung at juno.com>

Swedes emigrated to Japan to get better Sushi?

LL - NY

On Wed, 11 Jul 2001 20:53:13 -0400 George Selby <gselby4x4 at earthlink.net>
writes:
>At 05:33 AM 7/11/01 -0400, you wrote:
>>that the P-brake should be on the FRONT brakes
>>so that it'd be actually effective as an emergency brake (those
>crazy
>>thoughtful Swedish aircraft engineers!)
>
>Mid 80's Subarus had E-brakes on the front, a friend of mine had one,
>I was
>quite confused for a moment when I first saw the front brakes (what
>the
>heck are these cables doing here?)
>
>George Selby
>70 F-100 Ranger XLT 400 C6
>78 F-150 4x4 400 4 spd
>83 Audi Coupe GT
>86 Nissan 300ZX
>92 Subaru Legacy Wagon AWD
>gselby4x4 at earthlink.net
>