I need to know the main components in a non-ABS system and also what they do/how they work.
Pedal (pretty easy one) That is connected to a brake booster usually its a vacuum operated servo that assists your pedal power. then that is actuating the master cylinder which has a reservoir and a piston inside of it. That piston creates the hundreds of pounds of pressure to actuate the brake calipers (slave cylinders for disk) and/or drum brake slave cylinders. Of course there is rubber hoses and metal lines between the master and the slave cylinders. On disk brakes there is a piston in it that clamps down on the rotor disk (well the pads are touching are between it and the rotor) then on drum brakes there is a set of springs and arms but basically the slave pushes out on the brake shoes (pads) causing friction with the drum.
Pedal, behind that is a servo (brake booster) which basically multiplies the pressure that you put on the pedal, by a vacuum driven off the engine, master cylinder, which the pedal pushes the piston inside, which pushes the brake fluid down the pipes to your front and rear wheels, on the front it will push a single piston inside a caliper (although there's sometimes 2 pistons) against your brake pads, which clamp down on your disks(rotors, as you Americans call them)that happens on the front two wheels, for the rear two it pushes a piston inside a drum, which pushes pads against the inside of the drum, causing friction, and slowing the car.
