Re: brake help, please

[Matt Haas <mhaas@xxxxxxx>]

Andrew,

I picked up a rear wheel cylinder for my 68 a few years ago (bleeder screw 
snapped) and it fit perfectly. It was also in a Wagner bag that was either 
in a Tru-Torque bag or had one of their stickers on it. I'm sure that wheel 
cylinders are like everything else -- few manufactures and lots of names.

Also, I just picked up new brake stuff for my 67 (exact same parts -- I 
check the parts book before buying) and AutoZone carries the cylinders now 
(special order, which is a special pain at AutoZone -- their inventory 
system stinks). The fronts where $16 and the rears were $13. They couldn't 
get the self adjuster kits (or at least couldn't figure out how to get 
them) but had everything else. I got the self adjusters at Advance.

Matt

At 07:30 PM 5/2/2005 -0400, you wrote:
> i'm gonna have the rear brakes on my '68 199 american worked over, and
> in the process i've gotten new wheel cylinders, true torque w50014.
> got em at advance.  but my shop is complaining that they 'don't look
> like the cylinders in there' and understandably don't want to start
> the job and tie their lift up.  they appear smaller.
>
> i've never heard of true torque; the bags say 'made in china'...  but
> that number matches the wagner one, and the advance part list also
> showed the correct bendix number and both showed the correct 15/16"
> bore, so unless they wrongly boxed -both- cylinders i'm about as sure
> as i can that they are right.  anyone have supporting evidence?
>
> mix into this that the rear brakes have been -just-a-little- touchy
> ever since last time i had the cylinders replaced, and though they [a
> different shop] swore they didn't, i've always wondered if they used
> the wrong cylinders.
>
> now the advance part selector is ****ing stupid...  after asking me
> all the questions to narrow my model down, it proceeds to show -all-
> the brake parts for -all- the models!  and if you were in a hurry
> and/or unscrupulous, you could easily think the bigger cylinders for
> the v8 10" brakes at 1/3 the cost were correct.  i don't know if they
> physically fit though.
> --
> btw rambler dan's '68 rambler parts page was a great help, but it's
> now at skidmore, not netheaven.
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mhaas@xxxxxxx
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