Re: BTV replacement
Posted by Craig Hendrickson On 2011/6/3 18:02:01
Owen_dyneto Quote:
Dave,
I don't know where you've been the last eight plus years when the subject of relocating the pedal position to get 3:1 leverage has come up! Here's the pedal in my 55 Pat, which has been that way since Feb 2003:
I won't rehash the pros/cons, but it has never presented any problem for me or the many who have driven my Pat over the years including several PackardInfo members and a few unwarned random valets in Las Vegas.
HH56 has an elegant solution which keeps the pedal pad in about the stock location, but his is somewhat more complicated than mine and is not yet on the road, as far as I know.
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Certainly not if you left foot brake! But, I suppose you don't heel & toe with a manual transmission either.
Craig
That brake pedal arrangement shown in photo 100-0636 looks absolutely hazardous to me - like an accident waiting to happen.
Dave,
I don't know where you've been the last eight plus years when the subject of relocating the pedal position to get 3:1 leverage has come up! Here's the pedal in my 55 Pat, which has been that way since Feb 2003:
I won't rehash the pros/cons, but it has never presented any problem for me or the many who have driven my Pat over the years including several PackardInfo members and a few unwarned random valets in Las Vegas.
HH56 has an elegant solution which keeps the pedal pad in about the stock location, but his is somewhat more complicated than mine and is not yet on the road, as far as I know.
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The pedal is so far removed from the position we all anticipate and expect that the extra time it will take to lift you foot and move it over and down to the pedal can result in quite some road travel distance before the brakes are even applied.
Certainly not if you left foot brake! But, I suppose you don't heel & toe with a manual transmission either.
Craig
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