Thread: 00' Brakes
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Old 10-05-2007, 04:45 AM
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Re: 00' Brakes

First I would like to say that a ford explorer is built the same as a small truck, It makes a pretty suitable work truck i would say myself. In fact, having my bumper fall off would be by far one of the best possible situations involved in losing a trailer, which I'm sure you know all about. Not that it would matter really as long as your trailer emergency brake clip was well secured to the chasis. The bumper would just serve as drag to slow the trailer along with the trailer brakes locking up from the trailer E brake being pulled, chances are it wouldn't even hit the truck...imagine that. Also the explorers short wheel base in combination with the v6 means incredible power without jerking on the bumper which is what really rips it off, as long as you are gentle with it its not going to go anywhere, especially since you can tow a car off an explorer bumper, but i guess i haven't done that either. I should have videotaped when the F350 diesel was spinning all 4 wheels in 4WD low with a 29 foot baha cabin cruiser, and i had to rachet strap my chasis to the 350 to pull it out, I wonder how i did that. soapboxes are cool maybe you should stick to building them, but back to the main topic

Well being that my E brake doesn't even engage i guess it wouldn't really matter since most of the braking seems to stem from the disc i'm cutting into. I went into work early today and picked up my truck with a forklift, air rachetted those tires off too see what i was dealing with, looks about the same to me. Even if there is a drum, it doesn't work, so I will just replace the disc. but i didn't have time to fix them, i was too busy running a boat yard with over 200 boats, using only one forklift, and ironically it has no brakes!!!!!! Damn howd you pick up your car with it, let alone run a whole yard with it, must be magic. Or maybe just skill
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