[AT] Case VAC/Now tractor brake mods

[Ralph Goff]

charlie hill wrote:
> This brings up something I've been thinking about.  It might not be 
> appropriate for a restoration but I wonder if anyone has ever modified or 
> thought about modifying tractor brakes by adding truck drum brakes or some 
> heavy automotive disc brakes.  I don't think it would be all that hard to 
> do.  It wouldn't be pretty but it should work.  I bet someone somewhere has 
> tried it.
Hi Charlie
The closest I have come to such a modification was exchanging the 
original equipment shoe and drum brakes on my Cockshutt 40 with the 
newer style enclosed disk brakes. It was a big improvement and of course 
a simple bolt in operation since the later 40s and 50s had disk brakes 
anyway. Just a trip to the salvage yard for the parts. Also the 
cockshutt disks take the same re-lining kit as the Case 730 which was 
convenient when we still had a Case dealer. Unfortunately Case has gone 
the same way as Cockshutt now. Just a memory swallowed up by a bigger 
company.

Ralph in Sask.