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‘71 Charger Proportioning Valve

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Original setup in my ‘71 Charger was drums all around, and now I’m doing disc up front and drums in the year.
I’m upgrading the booster, but do I need to update the proportioning valve?

How do I clean it and restore it if I can re-use it?

Thanks always!

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when adding disc up front, no upgrade needed to the factory proportioning valve. Just ad an adjustable brake valve to the rear brake line like T2R9 said. Then go to a big parking lot with out a lot of cars and make some hard braking stops, if the front dips very hard when braking adjust the rear valve so you have more rear braking till you have a good feel between front and rear brakes. You always want the front brakes (75 %) to come on first before the rear brakes (25 %) approximately. To much rear braking and you will have the car sideway before you know it. I did the same procedure when I added discs to my 70 Sport Satellite and the brakes work great now!! It took a few try's at stopping to get the rear valve adjusted right.


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If you want to go with original parts, there are a couple options for rebuilding. Do it yourself or send it to B&E Warehouse in MN: https://brakeandequipment.com/. B&E are great to work with and reasonably priced.

Either way, the replacement parts will come from here: https://www.musclecarresearch.com/mopar-parts. There is a lot of great info/how-to on that website, you just need to dig through lots of info.

Can’t speak to the additional parts required or if you’ll need a different p-valve (I think you will)
 
If not mistaken, on an all drum car no factory proportioning valve , what you have pictured is the oem distribution block , so you may have need for a proportion valve!Thats how I see it !
 
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