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" ============================================================= Posted by wixList Archiver -- http://www.amxfiles.com/wixlist