[AT] Now Ralph Video -- disc brakes

[charlie hill]

I've toyed with the idea of retrofitting my AC tractors with Disc brakes. 
It seems to me that
the rotors could be located inside the wheel just like they are on a car or 
pickup truck.  The
trick would be to find a rotor of a diameter that could clear and that could 
be modified to fit the
AC wheel bolt pattern.  Then I would need two master cylinders that could be 
actuated by the factory
brake rods, some steel brake lines and some short steel braded brake hoses 
for the connection from the steel
line to the rotor assembly.  It might even be possible to use the tractor 
hydraulics to actuate the brakes.  They
wouldn't be in a high heat situation like car or truck brakes.

Anyone got any thoughts on it?

Charlie Hill

-----Original Message----- 
From: Ralph Goff
Sent: Thursday, December 27, 2012 7:36 PM
To: Antique tractor email discussion group
Subject: Re: [AT] Now Ralph Video -- disc brakes

On 12/27/2012 4:21 PM, Dean Vinson wrote:
> Ralph, thanks for yet another interesting video.
>
> How do those disc brakes on your 40 actually work?  Is there a caliper and
> brake pads that press against the disc?  Or does the disc get pressed
> against the outer housing?  And how did the old brake shoe type work, 
> before
> you put the disc brakes on?
>
Dean , the original style Cockshutt drum and shoe brakes had an internal
and external shoe that squeezed the open drum when the pedal was
pressed. I guess when they were in new condition they might have been an
adequate brake but I liked the newer style double disk brake that the
newer series 50s had. And it was such an easy bolt on switch, nothing to
change internally, just buy the drum housings and disks. Maybe I had to
buy the spline extensions off the bull gears as well. It is so long ago
that I forget. The local wrecker had a Co-op E5 (Cockshutt 50) in the
yard and I just took the pieces I needed from that one.
Another advantage to the disk brakes, they took the same size
replaceable lining as the Case 30 series tractors so I could get the new
(rivet on) linings from the Case dealer.

Ralph in Sask.
>

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