master cylinder

[mikesinky]

i have got to the point of putting it all back together just about. i was going to keep the original brakes but after further thought i have decided to put discs on the front and was wanting to change the master cyl. i was wondering if anyone has done this. i am wanting to use the brake pedal i have. does anyone make one that you just have to mount to the frame?

[William Davey]

rustyhope.com sells a nice disc brake kit that uses your stock master cylinder and the rest is off the shelf at NAPA. I have purchased all the items for about $500. Have not installed it yet, but it seems very straigh forward. Charlie Akiers the owner was also very helpful.

My truck is a 55 C-3-B8, but I don't think it matters.

[mikesinky]

  William Davey said:

rustyhope.com sells a nice disc brake kit that uses your stock master cylinder and the rest is off the shelf at NAPA. I have purchased all the items for about $500. Have not installed it yet, but it seems very straigh forward. Charlie Akiers the owner was also very helpful.

My truck is a 55 C-3-B8, but I don't think it matters.

well i have talked to him about the disc kits but i was wanting to get a dual chamber master cyl.

[grey beard]

Mike,

This question has come up repeatedly here on this forum. Like you, I also would like to go to a dual pot master cylinder. The most common swap involves redrilling - ready for this? - your steering box holes on the frame and moving it forward 5/8-inch, which I sorta' frown on for some fundamental reasons.

Not too long ago, someone on this forum used his original brake pedal and welded an extension onto the bottom so it pushed rearward on application. He then mounted a nice dual pot ms behind the pedal pivot point, a very good idea in my estimation.

You may have noticed that things are just a tad crowded down there behind the steering box area. Why, it's nigh unto impossible for us chubby guys to change starters and the like, what with all that crowding down there. Moving the ms rearward away from that congestion would seem like a good idea for more than one reason.

AND, while you're at it, you could fab up a bracket and use a ms with a power booster from a late model vehicle, so you'd also get power brakes out of the swap. With or without front discs, this seems like an excellent idea to me. I hope to pursue it further this winter.

Good Luck. Do a search for master cylinders, and you'll find this guys photos of his work. Looked very nice to me.

[mikesinky]

  grey beard said:

Mike,

This question has come up repeatedly here on this forum. Like you, I also would like to go to a dual pot master cylinder. The most common swap involves redrilling - ready for this? - your steering box holes on the frame and moving it forward 5/8-inch, which I sorta' frown on for some fundamental reasons.

Not too long ago, someone on this forum used his original brake pedal and welded an extension onto the bottom so it pushed rearward on application. He then mounted a nice dual pot ms behind the pedal pivot point, a very good idea in my estimation.

You may have noticed that things are just a tad crowded down there behind the steering box area. Why, it's nigh unto impossible for us chubby guys to change starters and the like, what with all that crowding down there. Moving the ms rearward away from that congestion would seem like a good idea for more than one reason.

AND, while you're at it, you could fab up a bracket and use a ms with a power booster from a late model vehicle, so you'd also get power brakes out of the swap. With or without front discs, this seems like an excellent idea to me. I hope to pursue it further this winter.

Good Luck. Do a search for master cylinders, and you'll find this guys photos of his work. Looked very nice to me.

well i know what you mean by being crowded. i would like to have power brakes too but i will have to see. a buddy of mine has an old ford and i was talking to him about it and he said he thought his had kinda the same set up. he bought a kit from fat man fab. to mount his mc to the frame i thought about going and looking at his and see if i could come up with something. i have put alot of work into this truck and would hate to have someone pull out in front of me and my drum brakes not stopping me.

[Guest Kuster13]

This is what I came up with. Does it work? I haven't got that far. Peddle has full travel but I still have to run all the lines yet.

The bracket was made to mount the M/C rearward and use the stock pedal. I mounted a bar to the pedal and had to do some trimming to the pedal and some other braces to make it all fit. The pedal ended up being 3/8" closer to the gas pedal.

Tom

[woodscavenger]

Look at my blog. It explains a bit about what I did for mine. It works great!

[mikesinky]

thanks for the replys i might try woodcavengers idea it looks like it is pretty straightfoward. i just need to get started on it and figure out what will work.

[mikesinky]

  Kuster13 said:

This is what I came up with. Does it work? I haven't got that far. Peddle has full travel but I still have to run all the lines yet.

The bracket was made to mount the M/C rearward and use the stock pedal. I mounted a bar to the pedal and had to do some trimming to the pedal and some other braces to make it all fit. The pedal ended up being 3/8" closer to the gas pedal.

Tom

thats a nice looking job