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Need more braking force
The braking is kind of weak on my 1990 3/4 ton 4x4 Suburban I believe. It's got vacuum assisted brakes. I can stand on the brakes with both feet and it still doesn't have enough clamping force to skid. When hauling a load, it becomes much worse.
1. Is this normal? 2. Is there a way to increase clamping force such as installing a different master cylinder. If the master cylinder had a smaller bore, it would give more clamping force. 3. Could it be that I've got the wrong master cylinder on the vehicle? Thanks.......
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Re: Need more braking force
I see that you have a cummins in the truck. Diesels don't put out enough vacumm and I'm sure the vacumm pump does not put out enough vacumm either. You would upgrade to a hydroboost system. Mine would make my crew cab slide on pavement.
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Re: Need more braking force
Do you have a vacuum pump? Swtiching to a hydroboost setup may help if not. I thought most GM trucks originally equipped with a diesel was so equipped.
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Re: Need more braking force
Wow, that's a lot of power and weight to stop. Do you have a 14 bolt rear end? It's time to upgrade it to disc brakes.
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Re: Need more braking force
Yes, the Cummins has a vacuum pump and there is plenty of vacuum there. The engine in fact came out of a truck that had vacuum assisted brakes.
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Re: Need more braking force
I would really suggest hydroboost. Most 1 ton trucks came with it. It can be expensive to first put on the truck, but after you do it I am sure it will make a big difference.
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Re: Need more braking force
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My 1982 1/2 ton Suburban has the hydroboost setup and it has a lot more clamping force even with the much smaller brakes. I would have thought a 3/4 braking system would be even more effective than that.
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Re: Need more braking force
Shouldn't vacuum assist brakes be able to put as much clamping force as a hydroboost setup? Both setups are just force multipliers. I'm really wondering if maybe I might have an incorrect master cylinder on the truck.
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Re: Need more braking force
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Re: Need more braking force
I thought 3/4 ton trucks have 12.5" rotors and 1/2 ton trucks have 11.86" rotors.
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Re: Need more braking force
Ok you are right they do use a bigger rotor and I guess the calipers are different as well. I just know basically all the outer parts except for the brakes is the same expect for the hubs being 6 or 8 lug. My 12 bolt 6 lug and d44 8 lug all used the same ujoints, shafts, spindels, and knuckles, so I assumed the brakes where the same my bad. I still think hydroboost would really help tho. All diesel equipped Chevys came with thr hydroboost because the vacuum pump wouldn't handle the brake system that well. Are you sure you are getting good vacumm? Maybe your brake booster is going bad?
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Bad brake booster? Well that's a possibility. Is there a way to test it and if so, how do I test it?
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Re: Need more braking force
Try ss braided lines. I got some for my 1/2 ton abd i have hardly any vacuume and they just about turned my brakes to normal
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Re: Need more braking force
I really don't know the answer to that question. I've never had a bad one so I'm not sure how to test if it is bad or not
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Re: Need more braking force
Here are the brake system release charts for an '87 V20 Suburban:
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Re: Need more braking force
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Re: Need more braking force
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Thanks a lot. This is exactly what I needed. As I suspected, there are master cylinders with different bores for my truck. My truck happens to be the heavy duty 8600 GVWR. It looks like if I install a master cylinder off a lighter duty 6600 GVWR (which has a smaller bore), it'll increase the pedal ratio and increase clamping force. ![]()
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