TEST FOR BRAKES.
A test to prove whether the brakes of a car are acting evenly is to feel’the temperature of the drums. The car should be taken out on the road and run preferably downhill with the brakes hard on for about 100 yards. The power of each of the brakes can then be discovered by the temperature of the outside of the brake drums. If the brakes are all equally effective there should be no appreciable difference in temperature between any of the drums, but if one feels hptter than the other that particular pair of shoes can be slackened off slightly, or alternatively the other three may be adjusted a little closer. Afterwards the car must be jacked up to make sure that all the . wheels are free when the brakes are in the “ off ” position.
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Matamata Record, Volume XIII, Issue 1109, 27 March 1930, Page 7
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139TEST FOR BRAKES. Matamata Record, Volume XIII, Issue 1109, 27 March 1930, Page 7
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