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I was waaaaayyyy off when I wrote that.
The M35A2 uses the airpack to directly boost fluid pressure. One would be required for each circuit and a two port MC with divorced pressure zones.
Running hydroboost with a single booster is possible, but that would require the MC be able to move...
With a 5ton you have hydraulic power for a hydroboost system as well... it opens a lot of doors. Building a bracket and just adding parallel systems seems like a waste though. One large system of modern design should more than do the job. We aren't going to do much with more pressure, the...
It looks like Uncle Sam just built split REDUNDANT brakes on the late Air Force trucks... kinda makes sense. Same parts and all, just two of them.
If there is a big enough master cylinder to work for the M35series, it may well work for the 5ton.
The trucks I'm checking right now are old GMC...
Just doing some looking... it seems a lot of old dump trucks used to be hydraulic brakes... any tandem axle hydraulic brake system from the 1970s drum dumps would seem to be a good place to look. I know the old F800 we had was a single axle, but did they make them in tandems as well?
I'm being...
I'm coming from the automotive industry here, so be kind if I'm missing some thing...
We are trying to split the system in a manner similar to modern automotive brakes... single reservoir feeding two brake circuits so a line failure in either one won't disable the other. Correct?
The only...
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