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Originally Posted by jack backer
Bent or curved rods will ‘absorb’ application pressure,giving poor equalization and function.
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This true - but the reverse may be true.
Going from the original "equalization" system (Ford went out of his way to have equal pressure on all four brake shoes on the early split cross shaft cars) to the more modern "solid center cross shaft" Ford "gave up" some of that equalization. Stretching of the rods/torsion of the cross shaft gives an "approximation" of the equalization theoretically possible.
I.e. there is a certain "spring" made into the system by its design. An equivalency for hydraulic systems would be "air bubbles."
AND Given that the Ford brakes are "manually" adjusted at each wheel anyway, and by their nature and human estimation "more or less" equally adjusted, the approximation was thought "good enough."
I guess I would say a "minor" bend is fine. In your adjusting you manually compensate for that anyway.
But straight is where you start. The first tree branch you run over will have other ideas.
Joe K