Joel Talka
Well-Known Member
Hi Guys;
Another question regarding my 66 Coronet. When I bought the car someone had converted it to manual disc brakes up front, leaving the drums in the rear. I did not drive the car all that much before the teardown but what I can say is that the brakes were basically non-existant! There was a hard pedal but no real stopping power. The calipers up front are single piston sliders, which seem pretty common as I look at stuff online.
I bought a master cylinder/booster/proportioning valve unit from Classic Performance Products thru YearOne. This unit is supposed to be for a disc/drum setup.
The question is..other than fitting that CPP unit in place of the existing master cylinder and proportioning valve, and figuring out the lines, is there anything else I need to do? I want to clean up the calipers (covered in undercoating) and rebuild them...are these parts available?
Any other words of wisdom to pull this off are more than welcome...
Thanks,
Joel
Another question regarding my 66 Coronet. When I bought the car someone had converted it to manual disc brakes up front, leaving the drums in the rear. I did not drive the car all that much before the teardown but what I can say is that the brakes were basically non-existant! There was a hard pedal but no real stopping power. The calipers up front are single piston sliders, which seem pretty common as I look at stuff online.
I bought a master cylinder/booster/proportioning valve unit from Classic Performance Products thru YearOne. This unit is supposed to be for a disc/drum setup.
The question is..other than fitting that CPP unit in place of the existing master cylinder and proportioning valve, and figuring out the lines, is there anything else I need to do? I want to clean up the calipers (covered in undercoating) and rebuild them...are these parts available?
Any other words of wisdom to pull this off are more than welcome...
Thanks,
Joel