SECTION M
TIlE
BRAIUNG
SYSTEM
General Description.
Mal
nee
nan
ceo
The
Master Cylinder.
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Adjustment
of
the
brake
pedal.
Brake-shoe adjustments.
To
bleed
the
system (expel air).
Removal of
the
master
cylinder.
Dismantling
the
master
cylinder.
Assembling
the
master cylinder.
Replacing
the
master
cylinder.
Brake assembly,
Removal of
the
wheel cylinder.
Dismantling
the
wheel cylinder.
Assembling
the
wheel cylinder.
Replacement of
the
wheel cylinder.
Removal of
the
flexible hose.
Removal and
replacement
of
the
brake-shoes.
Relining
the
brake-shoes.
Brake fluid.
The
hand brake.
Rear brake pipes.
Braking i
rregu
larities and th eir causes.
GENERAL
DESCRIPTION
The Lockheed hydraulic
brake
operating
equipment
comprises a combined fluid supply
tank
and
master
cylinder in which
the
hydraulic pressure is
generated,
and wheel cylinders which
operate
the
brake-shoes,
Steel pipe lines. unions and flexible hoses convey
the
hyd raullc
pressure
from
the
master cylinder to
each wheel cylinder.
Each brake-shoe on
the
front
wheels has a
separate
wheel cylinder,
thus
providing
two
leading shoes.
On
the
rear
wheels a single wheel cylinder.
operated
both
hydraulically and mechanically, floats on
the
brake
plate and
operates
the
two
shoes, giving
one
leading and
one
tralllng
shoe
in
either
oireetlon of
rotation
to
provide
adequate
braking in reverse.
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