Driveshaft-mounted disc park brake?

["Mad Max"]

Folks,

I'm looking at a rear disc brake system but there's no park brake. Anyone hear of or do a driveshaft-mounted disc parking brake system? I figure it would mount to the transmission or transfer case output shaft yoke somehow and have a nice neat caliper that is activated when in use. Any ideas???

- Sam

 

[phillips5]

Lots of manufactures have installed drive shaft brakes on there biger trucks they have been drum brakes. I don,t know of any american trucks thet use the getrag. moter homes use them on the back of 727 autos

 

[jlast]

aftermarket drivetrain companies make a disc e brake that fit on the back of a 205 transfercase. I cannot think of any names off hand, but do a search on the net and email a few places you can find them.

 

[AlK]

Transfer-case mounted parking brakes are available at High Angle Driveline http://www.highangledriveline.com

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Al

 

[1stgen4evr]

disc park brake

Consider this. And this actually happened to the wife of a friend of mine. The drive shaft completely disconnected in the Tenn mountains while towing a travel trailer that had "a bunch of stuff loaded inside". His park brake had gotten to the point that it would not actually hold well and there is no way to lock the vehicle in place except with the parking brake when the drive shaft is not connected. A trucker stopped and helped block it from going backward down the mountain. The wife had been in the truck about an hour with a terrified death grip on the steering wheel and both feet on the brake pedal.



If you want a real park (emergency) brake, put it on the axle. Someone like spicer may have a pinion yoke that would allow such a setup. Other than that, put it on the brake disc somehow.





750k miles + on ctd trucks