weak brakes

[91rollumback]

any ways to make my 91 stop any better?

 

[towcat]

F350 or F450 ?
btw......
welcome to the basement

 

[JPR]

single or dual rear wheels?

 

[JohnDeStef]

Upgraded brake pads? What do you guys recommend? Hawk? Satisfied?

My truck w/ the abs is adequate, but better bite with the pads would be nice. Hey I better change the brake fluid first, that might make a huge difference...

 

[reklund]

I've been looking all over for some stainless steel brake lines for my old F250....I think that would greatly improve peddle feel to replace the old squishy rubber flex lines.

BTW-JohnDeStef- I LOVE your Celica! I'm a bit of a Toyota nut myself, and I work as a Tech at a Toyota dealership.... You might appreciate my hotrod 22RE in my rockcrawling truck or my 400HP 7MGTE in my 87 Supra...


Ryan

 

[JohnDeStef]

BTW-JohnDeStef- I LOVE your Celica! I'm a bit of a Toyota nut myself, and I work as a Tech at a Toyota dealership.... You might appreciate my hotrod 22RE in my rockcrawling truck or my 400HP 7MGTE in my 87 Supra...

Many thanks to a Toyota Tech! I appreciate that.

rekland's Garage... clicky no worky... Well it works but the Garage is empty! I was hoping to find some info about your 87 Supra in your garage. I would really really like to do that swap too!

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[reklund]

should work now...just gotta get some pics of the F250!

Still haven't been able to find any stainless lines for the old Ford...Any ideas?

Ryan

 

[highest_vision]

Still haven't been able to find any stainless lines for the old Ford...Any ideas?

What year? These people carry some good stuff but not a whole lot for newer stuff.
James

 

[reklund]

I'm hoping to find a set of stainless braided brake lines for my 1992 F250...but haven't had any luck. That site is great tho, it'll be useful on another project I'm sure.

Ryan

 

[highest_vision]

You can send your old stuff to them and they will make it. I believe same cost (as SS braided in-stock) as they will stick it in the cataloge.
James

 

[tommyp]

search here for converting it to hydro assist, seems to make the biggest improvement( there was something here just a few days ago). rear disc's are another option

http://www.oilburners.net/forums/showthread.php?t=8777 here, it's in the tech area

 

[Magoo]

any ways to make my 91 stop any better?

Are you talking about the mushy pedal, or is your truck just having stoping power issues? I have been out of the loop a while but a few years ago we started putting the F450 master cyls on all the 250 and 350 trucks and it cured the "mushy" pedal and improved all around stopping power. Last I heard there are some direct replacement masters now with a larger bore size that do pretty much the same thing but I have not installed any so its second hand info to me. The 450 unit requires the mounting holes to be elongated in order to bolt up. I used to use a die grinder and it took about a minute to get the pattern to match. Hope that helped. Magoo

 

[NapaBavarian]

The first thing I do whenever I get a new old truck is replace the master cylinder AND the rear wheel cylinders, it cures the mush every time, and I have never purchaced a used truck that had those in good shape, don't cheap and just do one, I tried that twice and both times I had to replace the other within a week, and don't forget to bleed your brakes once a year