brake issue

[admin]

posting this for Doc Nugent, who contacted the club via email:

"A friend has a '72 bug that he's put disc brakes on the front of, and now he consistently locks up the fronts. I've tried to sell him on the idea of putting a proportioning valve in the front circuit, but he's wondering if he can just swap the front and rear lines where they connect to the master cylinder - to put the greater pressure of the fronts into the rear and vice versa. Ever heard of such a mod? Think it might work?"

anyone?

[ckolek]

ive read about this in other forums and understand that this works, on my buggy i also have disc brakes all the way around and ive reversed the brake lines i have yet to run mine so i dont really know if it works, but im going to try it..

[Bryan Porter]

I have disc all the way around and I switched the lines and it works great stops on a dime and I have 135's on the front and don't lock them up.

[Buggy1]

In the old days we just swaped the brake cylinders front to back .... it was easy and quick to do .

Neal