anyone use a 88-98 power brake booster for power brakes
 

Has anyone used a 88-98 power brake booster and captainfab bracket? if so how did you end up hooking up the rod since its not threaded I didn't want to cut it and weld to it since it cost so much but trying to figure out what I should do I got a 87 master cylinder I wanna keep since its hooked to the proportioning valve using the brake system off a 87 since I have all the axles off of my 87 under my 65 so long story short will it work or should I try another one its the 2nd one I have had the guy at Napa is getting fed up with me since I keep bringing them back he just don't understand what I am doing

Re: anyone use a 88-98 power brake booster for power brakes
 

I am gonna use a 98 booster/master on my 65. My Capt Fab bracket should be in tomorrow or Friday. My plan was to cut off the eye on the booster rod and thread it. That way I can extend the rod and use a threaded heim joint to bolt to my pedal assembly with no welding.

Re: anyone use a 88-98 power brake booster for power brakes
 

Cut and weld. It's practically inevitable.

Re: anyone use a 88-98 power brake booster for power brakes
 

I used Captianfab's booster bracket & I "Think" I used the 88-98 booster. I found a truck in the junk yard that had the steering column & motor pulled making removal of the booster easy, so that's the one I grabed. The booster used metric nuts & had a rod with an "eye" on the end to attach to the brake pedal. I cut the eye off and threaded the rod using a 3/8" x 24 die. I picked up two 3/8" x 24 coupling nuts, four jamb nuts and one 3/8" hiem end from Orchard supply. BUT Speedway has a slick set up for about the same $10.00 I spent at Orchard, that's the route I would have gone if I had seen it earlier.

Re: anyone use a 88-98 power brake booster for power brakes
 

I used Captain fabs bracket and a booster out of a 91 truck. I was not comfortable welding either, so I cut off the eyelet and tapped it with a 3/8" x 24 die similar to 64 shortbox. Then I had a guy in my shop turn me up a little extension like the one in the drawing below. Worked out great. Now I just need to figure out my master cylinder and I will be all set.

http://i430.photobucket.com/albums/q...e_push_rod.jpg

Re: anyone use a 88-98 power brake booster for power brakes
 

thanks guys I just didn't know if you were all welding or getting one that all you had to do was thread something to it I will just see what I feel like and get it threaded or welded thanks