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HadEnough
Explorer
May 30, 2019

Can I Get Away With a Quick Brake Job in a Campground?

I’m driving around right now with brakes that actually don’t really work. They just barely stop the vehicle. I am using my exhaust brake mostly to stop it, and then it just barely will stop the last b...
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agesilaus
Explorer III
May 30, 2019
First--> do not forget your emergency brake. It works and it's there just for this reason.

Now why I know that, I was towing a 34ft fiver just south of Calgary and had a brake piston fail. The emergency brake worked well and I did an emergency brake job in the camp ground. No one said a thing about it. Finding a auto parts store in Calgary was oddly difficult being conditioned to the large number of that type of shop in any American city. They also charged two to three times as much.

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