From: m35products (m35prod@optonline.net)
Date: Sat Nov 08 2003 - 19:56:30 PST
Mico, not Micro, lock. I know all about it. Please re-read my initial
question. A P Bloom
----- Original Message -----
From: "James Shanks" <n1vbn@bit-net.com>
To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
Sent: Saturday, November 08, 2003 10:27 PM
Subject: Re: [MV] M35 Parking Brake
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> What you guys are talking about is known as a Microlock and was very
> popular in the sixties and seventies. Whether it was electrical or a lever
> you moved they both operated the same was. To set brake flip lever all the
> way or push and hold the button then step on the brake HARD a couple of
> good stomps but not all your weight to set brake. The system was for short
> term stops not overnight parking brakes. To release the brake simply flip
> the lever all the way to the "Drive" position and the brakes are released
> that easy. The electrical version you simply stomp on the brake pedal
> without pushing the button and it opened the one way valve and off you go.
> The only safety consideration is with the manual lever control THE LEVER
> MUST POINT TO THE FLOOR WHEN THE BRAKES ARE RELEASED. This way the
> vibration from the truck won't close the manual valve if mounted the wrong
> way.
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> Jim
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> \At 08:50 AM 11/8/2003 -0500, 194cbteng@bellsouth.net wrote:
> >These work fine, just be sure to firmly apply brakes FIRMLY is key word,
> >friend of mine jumped in his truck that had this device but brakes had
not
> >been firmly applied, this let truck move, he was in a hurry and did not
> >notice truck pulling hard until smoke started coming from wheels, he was
> >known thereafter as "brake shoe"
> >
> >I wonder also that if this device was in place and applied; if like my
> >friend you drove anyhow, would you have brakes or would valve block flow
> >both ways???
> >
> >I always pumped bakes couple of times then flipped swith, do not know
what
> >would be the effect of flipping switch and then pumping brake pedal.
> > >
> > > From: MVTrucker@aol.com
> > > Date: 2003/11/08 Sat AM 08:22:54 EST
> > >>
> > > A M135 w/winch I had has a switch to lock the brakes.
> > > Apply the brakes and flip the switch. I think what it
> > > does is activate some sort of shutoff in the hydraulic
> > > brake line. My 5-ton wreckers have a similar device.
> > > I don't see any reason one of these couldn't be adapted
> > > to a M35A2.
> > > Joe Young
> > >
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> James Shanks
> n1vbn@bit-net.com
> 1998 IMZ 8.103
> 1984 H-D FLHT-C
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