Ok, I know some of you have looked into turn brakes such as the style on sandrails but what about the ones on tractors? You have two break peds with a bar that can lock both together or control each one separate. The two peds could be located to the left of the clutch if slim enough and would only control the rear brakes. I think this could be done, but just don't know the parts involved. Such as, is it possible to have it plumbed in through the factory brake booster and custom distrubution block so you wouldn't have to have thunder thighs to use it? Constructive ideas welcomed!

What would you use them for?

 

Front wheel drive turns the vehicle fairly well.

 

Locking your diff will give you all the traction you want but you can't use split brakes with that setup.

 

With the Subaru Front wheel park brake it makes more sence to split the front rather than the rear.

 

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This system works as traction control for the front wheels.

It would be used in conjuntion with an open or lsd rearend for traction once one of the wheels lifted off the ground. I ran a locked diff for year or so and it worked great, but it tends to push you straight in situations where you don't want to be pushed straight. Running different farm equipment around, it's one of the ways to get out of situations when you don't have locking diffs.

 

It seems the problem with the turn brakes for sand rails is that they don't apply enough pressure to lock the floating tire up. The one set up i saw didn't have it plumbed in line with the brake booster. Would it be possible to do this setup and but have it plumbed back so that it was essentially "powered" turn brakes?

 

 

This system works as traction control for the front wheels.

 

You run this in the front and locked in the rear I am assuming? How would this work with open rear and this for the front? Probably the same if it were on the rear?