How Tight Should Your Brakes Be?

[Soundguy]

Was this humor aimed at old tractors with leaky axle seals or a real question?

Lotsa tractors have brakes outboard of the axle seals... thus dry brakes... Mind you many antiques have leaky axle seals.. and thus "wet", dry brakes!

soundguy

 

[john_bud]

John Bud, aren't most all tractor brakes "wet brakes"?

There is a break (no pun intended) on brake technology that occurs roughly at the CUT / UT line. The smaller tractors use dry brakes and the larger ones use wet. It's about the same delineation for wet clutch / dry clutch.

Competition is driving the better technologies (wet brakes, wet clutch, etc) from the realm of the large expensive machines down into the smaller cheaper stuff most of us buy.

Then there are the "hybrid" brakes / clutches. Designed as dry, but due to a leak are now wet! Ah the joys of 45 year old iron.

jb