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[lowdrag]

We were touring with the E-types, about 40 cars in all. One chap had great problems with brake squeal and being a university professor thought about it and worked out how to fix it. Luckily we caught him before he greased the discs.

[baconsdozen]

I saw a guy clamping the flexi pipe going to the front brakes on his A60 with mole grips because it had a leak from a wheel cylinder. It was bad enough to have soaked the drum and inside edge of the tyre, He'd bought a can of fluid and was going to fill the system again after clamping the pipe and drive home. Trouble is he lived 100 miles away!.
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Thirty years selling imperial hand tools for old machinery(Now happily retired).

[Keith D]

When I first bought my '26 Chrysler, which has 4 wheel hydraulic brakes as standard, both front brakes had been disconnected by cutting the rubber hoses and screwing self tapping screws into the remaining half of the hoses!

Keith

[mikeC]

[Penman]

Hi Mikec
I took an 1100 back from Cheltenham to Chipping Sodbury without hydraulics in about '73, late at night.
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Bristols should always come in pairs.

Any 2 from:-
Straight 6
V8 V10

[peter scott]

[47Jag]

I've told this story before: In preparation for the 1st MOT test then known as the 'ten year test' my 1948 Jaguar was pulling to the right. In my naivety I loosened the right side font brake rod and tightened the left. I convinced myself that it no longer pulled and set off to leave the car at the garage for testing the next day. On the way a various junction I would do 'emergency stops' to test the brakes. About 1/2 mile from the garage there was a twang and an immediate cessation of retardation. To get the car stopped I switched the ignition off in-gear and that did the trick. I'm now 3 miles from home with no brakes ( the handbrake was connected through the same rods). To get the car back home it was a case of downshifting on approach to a stop and switching off for the last few yards. I then had to learn how the system worked with the help of a co-incidentally published Practical Motorist who were overhauling a Jaguar at the time.

The advice in Practical Motorist on how to pass the ten year test was to use a common house brick. Placed on edge and apply the footbrake. If it toppled over you had the necessary 50% retardation to pass. Place it on it's side and apply the handbrake which only required 25% to pass.

Art

[BigJohn]

I was a Cop, I could fill pages of stupid modifications/repairs. I once followed an MG which seemed to have no suspension movement on left hand bends and some movement on right hand ones. Interested, I stopped it, to find the offside rear leaf spring mount had at some time rusted through the floor, so a block of oak had been placed on the axle, and then laced into place through a good bit of floor and round the axle with fencing wire.

[Dipster]