LOL...When I was in tech school years ago, I had an instructor that would dock our grade on the lab work if we ever called it an emergency brake (because there is no such thing in his mind.) To him, an emergency break was what a student would take when they were about to piss thier pants...LOL :B

d3500ram wrote:LOL...When I was in tech school years ago, I had an instructor that would dock our grade on the lab work if we ever called it an emergency brake (because there is no such thing in his mind.) To him, an emergency break was what a student would take when they were about to piss thier pants...LOL :BLol

Apparently he was too young to have ever driven a car with flakey single system brakes. I used the emergency brake several times, and it was not for parking. it was a last ditch attempt to get the blooming thing stopped! When we drove, you of the first things you learned was that anything could happen anytime, and most likely whenever you least expected it to. Now, a complete brake failure is an almost impossible thing to happen, but in our days, it was not unusual thing at all. Ane the emergency brake system was exactly that! Never used it for parking, to do that, you just turned the wheels toward the curb, or put the nose against a tree! That was a parking brake. Some of the smarter folks carried wheel chocks.

d3500ram wrote:LOL...When I was in tech school years ago, I had an instructor that would dock our grade on the lab work if we ever called it an emergency brake (because there is no such thing in his mind.) To him, an emergency break was what a student would take when they were about to piss thier pants...LOL :BWhat is it, an Emergency break, or emergency brake?

Isn't this like asking who has marker lights verses running lights verses parking lights?

The Mechanical brake that is installed on our Motor Home doesn't really seem to be anything but that. I really don't think it would stop the rig, and I certainly would'n depend on it to park on an extreme slope. It is connected behind the transmission on the drive shaft, and not to any of the actual wheel brakes. The old EMERGENCY brake systems were attached by cable to both of the rear wheels, and could easily lock up both, or either of them. Used them many times to slow a car without the brake lights coming on, especially if there was a police car behind me. BTW, they still work pretty good to get a tailgater off your backend, but it can get your rear end smashed also. Procedure is slow, downshift, gently raise brake handle, then drop handle and stomp the gas pedal to get out or the way. And if it is a new car and looks well insured, pull the handle again real quick and collect the insurance money. Note: beware nasty old farts driving beat up old cars with dents in the back.

Who's truck has a parking brake, who has an emergency break?

Edd505
Explorer
Apr 08, 2017
The first thing you learn with either is not to use it in freezing temps unless you don't want to go any where till they thaw out.
burningman
Explorer II
Apr 08, 2017
When I was a teenager we used to call it a "U brake"! Get rolling about 30-ish, hit the "U brake" and crank the steering wheel - instant U turn!
time2roll
Nomad
Apr 07, 2017
Johno02 wrote:
The Mechanical brake that is installed on our Motor Home doesn't really seem to be anything but that. I really don't think it would stop the rig, and I certainly would'n depend on it to park on an extreme slope. It is connected behind the transmission on the drive shaft, and not to any of the actual wheel brakes.

That parking brake should hold the RV parked in almost all conditions. I recommend shifting to neutral, set the parking brake and see that it holds before you place it in park. If it does not hold then have it serviced. Same goes for all vehicles.
Rubiranch
Explorer
Apr 07, 2017
Mine has both

a park brake on the left side and an emergency brake next to the accelerator pedal
Tom_Anderson
Explorer
Apr 07, 2017
Reddog1 wrote:
If it is not an emergancy brake, why are brake line locks illegal in california?

I don't think it's so much that they're illegal as that they don't qualify as a parking brake. To be legal, a parking brake needs to be independent of the service brake system, which a line lock is not. If you were to blow a hydraulic line, for example, a line lock wouldn't help.

There are some disk brake systems that use the same calipers with a mechanical actuator, and there are air-braked vehicles with spring brakes that share the same foundation brakes, and they're obviously legal. So I don't know exactly what the law says, but that's the basics of it.

If you want to look it up, it should all be in the Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards.
mkirsch
Nomad II
Apr 07, 2017
free radical wrote:
Reddog1 wrote:
If it is not an emergancy brake, why are brake line locks illegal in california?
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Illegal?
I guess no Camaros for you then :)
https://youtu.be/xFWfpKrQRpQ

Just because speeding is illegal doesn't mean that nobody speeds. Maybe not in California because you have a hard enough time getting up to the speed limit, let alone exceeding it, but if you've ever been outside California, you'd know what I mean...
theoldwizard1
Explorer II
Apr 07, 2017
The term "emergency brake" and "parking brake" are used interchangeably in the US. In the Midwest, most are frozen in the off position within 2-3 years because the are never used.
d3500ram
Explorer III
Apr 07, 2017
trail-explorer wrote:
Your title and first post have 3 things listed:

Parking brake, emergency break and emergency brake

Parking brake = what modern cars today have as standard equipment.
Emergency break = needing to use the restroom very soon.
Emergency brake = an ancient device used on early automobiles.

Flintstone brake = a device used on cartoon vehicles without shoes (not to be confused with break shoes...LOL
trail-explorer
Explorer
Apr 07, 2017
Your title and first post have 3 things listed:

Parking brake, emergency break and emergency brake
Bubtoofat
Explorer
Apr 07, 2017
My truck (2500HD) has disc brakes AND drum brakes on the rear, with actual brake shoes. I would say that the drum brakes were actual emergency brakes, meaning you could apply the e-brake at speed and safely come to a stop.

My brother's truck (1500) has very thin stamped steel "shoes" with some type of friction material that is about 1/16 of an inch thick. I'd call that a parking brake. If you were to apply his parking brake at speed I'm sure the thin material on the shoes would vaporize in the blink of an eye and disaster would quickly follow.

Mike