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buildinga55 · 10-24-2014, 07:49 PM

Well, I think I have done all i can do. Bled the brakes again tonight. Drove it and the booster feels like power brakes just to slow down, but if you really want to stop, it will slide the tires, but you have to stand on the pedal. At least that is better than when I got this thing from the father in law. You could not lock it up at all. So I guess new shoes, new wheel cylinders, new MC, extra vacuum canister and multiple pedal adjustments and bleedings, did improve it some, but this is all I can do. If it were my truck, I would put disc brakes on it and call it a day, that is what I always do on stuff I restore but this is not my truck and I guess this is the best we are going to get.

10-24-2014, 07:49 PM	#24
buildinga55 Registered User Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: Springfield, MO Posts: 258	Re: Putting booster on 66 drum brakes driving me crazy Well, I think I have done all i can do. Bled the brakes again tonight. Drove it and the booster feels like power brakes just to slow down, but if you really want to stop, it will slide the tires, but you have to stand on the pedal. At least that is better than when I got this thing from the father in law. You could not lock it up at all. So I guess new shoes, new wheel cylinders, new MC, extra vacuum canister and multiple pedal adjustments and bleedings, did improve it some, but this is all I can do. If it were my truck, I would put disc brakes on it and call it a day, that is what I always do on stuff I restore but this is not my truck and I guess this is the best we are going to get.