Nick_Rego
Registered User
Yep I am at it again.. haha hopefully this does not bite me in the but like my last upgrade endver... anyway, So over the weekend i did alot of towing with this 91 f350 with the 7.3 dually. I have never really towed much but Im trying to get to the point where i have mt own trailer and am regularly towing something most likely a camper since the wife and I love road trips. The truck did great we eneded up driving two hours south on the central coast of California with a 16ft cat trailer to pickup a 2 post car lift for my buddy... Unfortunately he didnt mention it wasent dismantled so we had to strap it down very well and took it at 50 the whole way back.. not sure total weight but the height was around 14ft at the top of the electric motor thst stuck up. the truck pulled it no problem trailer brakes worked but it still seemed a littlw weak at a few long down hill points had to kick out of overdrive and let the motor rev up a bit to avoid having to ride the breaks. after unloading that we had to relocate this 94 f350 4x4 crew cab parts truck we purchased from my work so we loaded it on that little trialer (barely fit and was very overloaded).. again truck pulled it no problem probably around mid 7,000s for the truck and the trailer was atleast 3,000 and then the aditional weight og my trucl high 7,000 luckily we didnt have far to go but was definitely alot for someone with as little experice as I have pullimg trailers...
Now that im done bragging about how stupid I am we can get to what i really am writing this about. Ive thought about doing the hydro boost setup ive also driven my dads 99 f350 dually psd which has hydroboost and it is noght and day stopping power.. so of course When i dragged the rest of 94's carcus to the scrap yard I managed to convince the scrap man to trade me the carcus for access to the yard to go parts hunting and I found a early 99 f450 with the psd and it also had a hydroboost setup in it. so of course I snagged the entire booster with master and all the lines as well as the entire power steering pump. I also managed to grab the very nice intercooler and hoses that those trucks come with ( thats for a future thread). I was so excited that i started looking into the finer details of what this swap takes and of course I found a problem..
Theres a few threads here explaining how to do the swap and one of them I came across mentioned the brake pedals have diffrent pivoy locations and after viewing images of that my heart sunk... And further reading says that auto and standard vehicles use diffrent pedals.... The truck i got them off again was a 99 f450 and it was a standard transmisson.
So my questions are the following:
1. even if i managed to go back and snag that brake pedal would it fit in my much older 91 with an auto trans?
2. do i need to modify the push rod?(I compared the hydroboost to the booster off the 94 vaccum booster and its several inches longer than the vacuum setup and smaller)
3. is this even the right hydroboost setup or am i trying to use the wrong year setup?
Now that im done bragging about how stupid I am we can get to what i really am writing this about. Ive thought about doing the hydro boost setup ive also driven my dads 99 f350 dually psd which has hydroboost and it is noght and day stopping power.. so of course When i dragged the rest of 94's carcus to the scrap yard I managed to convince the scrap man to trade me the carcus for access to the yard to go parts hunting and I found a early 99 f450 with the psd and it also had a hydroboost setup in it. so of course I snagged the entire booster with master and all the lines as well as the entire power steering pump. I also managed to grab the very nice intercooler and hoses that those trucks come with ( thats for a future thread). I was so excited that i started looking into the finer details of what this swap takes and of course I found a problem..
Theres a few threads here explaining how to do the swap and one of them I came across mentioned the brake pedals have diffrent pivoy locations and after viewing images of that my heart sunk... And further reading says that auto and standard vehicles use diffrent pedals.... The truck i got them off again was a 99 f450 and it was a standard transmisson.
So my questions are the following:
1. even if i managed to go back and snag that brake pedal would it fit in my much older 91 with an auto trans?
2. do i need to modify the push rod?(I compared the hydroboost to the booster off the 94 vaccum booster and its several inches longer than the vacuum setup and smaller)
3. is this even the right hydroboost setup or am i trying to use the wrong year setup?
