Another Brake Failure in Stock @ ENNIS DIV4

[Bob Miller]

Gary, I sure did'nt know what happened till you told me, glad you were ok. Makes me think I need to go to the last turn, I sure would have made sure sure you were ok and help if I could. Always enjoy racing you and your brothers. See yall at next month.

[Greg Reimer 7376]

Glad to hear you are alright and it sounds like you got out of that one with minimal collateral damage.Always like hearing all the good stories about you guys and your dad.Thanks for the reminder to periodically inspect this kind of stuff. Hope to see you all sometime soon.

[bobby]

Gary, do you remember that happeneing to Wayne Winfield at the old Houston International track? He was in his Hemi Cuda, the car was stopped by a tree athe end of the track. The track didn't even know he had wrecked and as he was walking back the safety people stopped him and told him he could not enter the track from down at the end. He just pointed towards his car and asked them why they wre still running when there was a wrecked car at the end of the track. This must have been around 83. I think you guys still had that Toyota station wagon,lol.

[Casey Miles]

First of all, I am glad to hear that you and your vehicle seem to be OK. I have a question about emergency brakes that come stock in all cars? Did you put on racing rear brakes or are they stock ones from the factory and do they work? I will bet the NHRA safety will make it manditory that the emergency brakes from the factory work in Stock and SS cars in the near future and if they don't SHAME on them. It's not right for the racers to jeoperdize their race cars and maybe their lives to safe some weight. I'm not being a smart ***, but the old drum brakes in working order are better then nothing.
Casey Miles
248H E/S ("f" the 4 HP)

[buzzinhalfdozen]

Casey, have you ever applied an emergency brake on a vehicle at speed? When me and my pals were young we used to do it for "fun", well I can tell you what happens but maybe you should try it and see for yourself. The problem is not with the actual braking system it's with the M/Cyl. pushrod install, I've seen it many times and I'm sure I'll see it many more. There has to be some thought involved with this as just hooking up a rod without a rear stop to prevent the rod from falling out is just looking for trouble. I'd suggest now that this topic is "hot" everyone PLEASE take an evening and crawl up under the dash and really look at what they have, most may be suprised at what they find. Joe

[indychamp02]

Gary glad everything was ok!!! The way we fixed our mustangs was drill out the brake pedal rod and use a bolt and lock nut grade 8- 7/16. Then we built a positive stop to keep the brake pedal rod from coming out of the master cylinder. Hope this will help out some. Once again glad everybody was ok!!!

[indychamp02]

To add more on my post we used the aerospace adjustable brake rod. Thanks Steven Hall 4782 CSA

[Darrin Christen]

Gary, thanks for giving us the heads up. I had a brake issue with my super street car at Ennis Sat. night also, yet a little different. The bolts that hold the rotor to the hat on the right rear backed out and just about machined the caliber bracket in half. It was vibrating pretty bad in the shut down area and sounded like someone was under my car with a grinder. All of the bolts on both rotors were loose. They had all been lock tighted in with star washer but not safety wired. Now I know why those safety wire holes were in those bolts. I failed to realize that red lock tight will loosen up with heat. Please check your brakes guys and gals. These near miss accidents are what help others from serious accidents. Thanks for posting your experience Gary.