Hudson Hill Holder Happiness!

37 CTS
37 CTS Senior Contributor
edited November -1 in HUDSON
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As I was last night was reading the 1940 Hudson Service Merchandiser article about Hudson Hill Holder, I wanted to try it out.

My 37 Hudson Eight has hill holder, when you stop on a hill with the clutch pedal in and the brakes on, the hill holder is set to hold the car when you release the brake pedal. The car will sit still and not roll backward. When engaging the clutch the hill holder releases the brakes. Then you can start moving foward without rolling backward.

In the several years I have had this car I had never tried this feature.
Its really cool to use this.

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  • Marconi
    Marconi Senior Contributor
    This was an option that it seems only Studebaker pushed, never drove a Stude with a stck trans that didn't have it. They worked really well. Wonder why nobody else tried tomove them like Stude as it was a Bendix product and adaptable to virtually any car or light truck! The Bendix trade name was " NoRol"
  • DocHornet
    DocHornet Expert Adviser
    edited August 2011
    Yeah,

    my old 1950 Studebaker truck has this feature as standard equipment I suppose.
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    It's kinda cool, but honestly in many situations is a PITA. For example if you are slowly backing down a hill, with clutch in, any brake application gets locked in until you release the clutch. When I first got the truck, I thought my brakes were binding up until I did some research.

    Cute, I guess, but certainly not a must-have item in my book.

    btw, a similar function was included on all Jaguar MK IX Saloons as I own. It has a solenoid-operated valve installed in line in the brake line. When the automatic transmission is not moving, and brakes applied are locked until the throttle is opened (a microswitch opens the solenoid). Can't imagine why something like this would be perceived to be needed on an automatic car!
  • Uncle Josh
    Uncle Josh Senior Contributor
    Ayuh!, I had one on the old 49 Studie. Worked great, especially when you only had 70 HP to get you going.

    I salvaged one from the 39 lwb Hudson I scrapped last fall. (It wouldn't cast a decent shadow). It was in combination with an Electric Hand. Wonder how that worked.

    Also have a NOS NoRoll in the box with instructions. Maybe I'll put one on the 40 coupe. Would be a good talking piece anyway.
  • Marconi
    Marconi Senior Contributor
    Seudebaker also had, as std equipment, on all cars with an automatic transmission an "anti creep" solenoid that kept the brakes applied at a stoplight till you applied the throttle as I recall they were electrically operated and when you applied the throttle it released the pressure on the brake system.
  • 37 CTS
    37 CTS Senior Contributor
    http://www.egmcartech.com/2011/08/04/2012-chevrolet-sonic-hill-hold-technology/

    Here is what started my interest in Hill Hold, The new Chevrolet Sonic has this technology, that my 74 year old Hudson already had.
  • hudsontech
    hudsontech Senior Contributor
    37 CTS wrote:
    http://www.egmcartech.com/2011/08/04/2012-chevrolet-sonic-hill-hold-technology/

    Here is what started my interest in Hill Hold, The new Chevrolet Sonic has this technology, that my 74 year old Hudson already had.

    Todays auto makers always trying to find something new!!! Most of the "new" stuff they come up was tried years ago.

    Bet one day in the distant future they gonna come up with a gimmick called a "carburetor"!!!!! :lol:

    Hudsonly,
    Alex Burr
    Memphis, TN
  • GrimGreaser
    GrimGreaser Senior Contributor
    It's not even that 'new'. The manual Dodge Challengers had this when they came out. Everything old is new again...
  • Marconi
    Marconi Senior Contributor
    BTW, Studebaker International in South Bend has the seal kits available for the hill holder/NoRol units!
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