69_Sportsroof
09-06-2020, 07:10 AM
The previous owner of my car appears to have scabbed together some awful brake setup and I'm not sure what to do at this point. This all started when I was replacing my pedal shaft bearing assembly, I had a hard time getting the booster off because it was threaded outside of the car and inside... Long story short I found out this car had manual brakes from the factory, and someone put a booster conversion in it.
Now here's the rundown of the awfulness:
-factory manual brake pedal with ratio around 6:1
-what appears to be a power master cylinder designed for drum brakes (one reservoir much smaller) and a 1.144" bore
-wilwood superlite front calipers
-lincoln mark vii rear disc conversion
-a wilwood proportioning valve installed inline with the factory differential valve(drum specific? Idk, also not sure if there is any sort of proportioning action in it)
At this point I think at a minimum I need to change the master cylinder or the pedal. I was debating manual brakes anyway, and now I know I have the manual brake pedal I think that might be the way to go... Thoughts?179076179077179078
Now here's the rundown of the awfulness:
-factory manual brake pedal with ratio around 6:1
-what appears to be a power master cylinder designed for drum brakes (one reservoir much smaller) and a 1.144" bore
-wilwood superlite front calipers
-lincoln mark vii rear disc conversion
-a wilwood proportioning valve installed inline with the factory differential valve(drum specific? Idk, also not sure if there is any sort of proportioning action in it)
At this point I think at a minimum I need to change the master cylinder or the pedal. I was debating manual brakes anyway, and now I know I have the manual brake pedal I think that might be the way to go... Thoughts?179076179077179078