Depressed brakes......

mrvette

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Just where in hell they ever come up with the term DEPRESS for stepping on the brake pedal and pressing it down that further presses the pads/shoes.....

that stupid term has NEVER made any sense to me....if you DEPRESS the brakes, the m/cyl and wheel cyl, and pads/shoes relax......

So who/what came up with the term that alludes to just the opposite function???

so to get in the car to bleed the brakes, we DEpress the brake pedal somehow, WTF, the damn thing is returned to neutral, no brake line pressure, so to DEpress the pedal???


I think someone screwed up decades ago and it's never been right since.....

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