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This is the puller I used for my rear drums. It is an old "Bluepoint" one and must way nearly 20lbs.

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Hi Kev,

That looks similar to the type used in the service manual and exactly what I need... pity I live approx 6K miles away... though my car spent most of it's life near your neck of the woods.

Dave.

Dave, that interesting that you car spent some of it's life around here, and I was born and spent some of my life about 250 miles southeast of you! :)

That brake pedal arrangement shown in photo 100-0636 looks absolutely hazardous to me - like an accident waiting to happen. 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.

The reason Easamatic had shorter stopping distances than conventioned brakes had nothing to do with the hydraulics or friction materials, it was that the reaction time from pedal to pedal was so much less.

I encourage you to find a better solution with a pedal location that more anticipates a driver's normal reflex action.

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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

Bozonono

I believe you posted the supersentive brake problem in another forum a few weeks ago. Several of us said that it sounded like you have grease on your linings. I presume you have examined them and have found them to be OK

Dave,

I understand what you are saying and it may not be the most elegant solution but as per Craig's it works and took very little getting used to. The car isn't my daily driver I couldn't afford it to be with the price of gas in UK so does very limited miles to a few shows a year if I am lucky. Some day I may change this all out again for a dual circuit combined master/booster unit perhaps from another vehicle available here and redesign the pedal some other way. Maybe someone will ultimately produce a direct bolt in replacement for the BTV but I doubt it very much. Until then I used what was available to me as I was fed up with having a car I couldn't drive at all.

Kev,

That is a coincedence wonder who has aged the best.. I was also born about 250 miles south of where I live in N. London...

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.


It's not on the road yet because the AC is a work in progress--and only progresses when I feel like messing with it -- between other projects. New carpet is coming--minus a cut brake hole. When that gets here, will put the dash carpet piece in place. By then I hope to have finished the AC case & can mount it and put the car back together. Then will test the brakes and decide.

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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!

Craig - I've been here and followed it right along. Just the first time I chose to comment on it.