Bob and Karen Brown's Airplane Building Project


 
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Overview of Brake Components

This is before we decided that the brake lines would be leak-proof. Notice the MATCO parking brake valve mounted on the firewall.  I later mounted an ".063 doubler plate below this.  No instructions were included for this valve, but I finally found them on the MATCO website.  At 90 bucks, this sucker isn't cheap, but it's well made and if it saves me from sitting on a ramp in Rock Springs, WY and waiting for someone to chock my plane, then...

(if I have to explain the previous comment, you haven't been to Rock Springs...)

Last edited 28-Dec-2005