{FORGED?} Re: more brake booster

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On October 31, 2005 Tom Jennings wrote:

> Erm, it seems I have a drum brake booster behind my disk brake master
> cylinder. The Rock Auto site has links to Cardone pages, which has
> excellent photos by the way (I assume they are correct :-)
> 
> I got the booster with the car, as parts-in-the-trunk, but I am
> fairly sure it came off the car, which did have drums up front. It's
> also a bellcrank linkage model (booster lives on an adapter that
> accomodates the bellcrank and pushes it away from the firewall).
> 
> I know the drum booster is single-diaphragm and the disk is double.
> This is just fine by me, I dislike feather-touch brakes.
> 
> A major feature is that the drum booster is inches shallower,
> something to keep in mind for oddball installs.
> 
> The booster is just a simple servo, right? There's no weirdness ie.
> drum vs. disk is there? Just fit and amount of boost?
> 
> (Since I'm plumbed for the disk brake master cyl on the end of the
> drum brake booster I'd rather keep it this way, the lessened boost is
> only a plus. It's luxurious compared to the Rambler, '79 disk setup
> with no boost at all).

Tom what did you do to mount a disc master to a drum booster? I was told it would not fit. I have a 79 Concord disc brake set up on my yellow 74 Hornet with the stock 74 drum booster & master and it works fine. It requires a touch more pedal pressure than my orange 74 Hornet with the factory power disc brakes.
"Doc"  










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