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Why do the brakes "freeze" the suspension?
Last week I was driving a motorcycle. When I stopped at a traffic light I noticed the rear suspension dropped a little when I released the rear brake. Later I noticed my car did the same thing. When ...
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Why does brake pedal ever move
I don't think my question has any connection to vehicle maintenance or repair but I think this is the closest site to my question topic.
My question may be arising from misunderstanding. For that I'm ...
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How would a car handle differently if it had independent brake controls, like a pedal bike?
Facts - Cars have one brake pedal. Bikes have two brake levers.
So a cyclist can brake fully with the front or the rear, or some combination of both, or alternate between the brakes.
If a car had ...
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Why doesn't applying the brake auto-apply the clutch in a manual transmission car?
This is more out of curiosity than anything. I've driven both manual and automatic vehicles, and it seems to me, that the hardest part of driving a manual vehicle is starting on an incline. The rest ...
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Dual brake calipers with one brake line?
A comment at the end of this ChrisFix video (at about 14:42): https://youtu.be/gjqeFEyaUxc?t=882 raised my eyebrows a tiny bit.
Chris says that you can run two brake calipers (two calipers on each of ...
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Does a diameter of a brake line affect braking pressure
I am currently building a brake system for a vehicle ground up and I know that the diameter of the master cylinder would affect the braking force proportionally to the area of the master cylinder. But ...
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