I was also a victim of the RamMan. It was a very disappointing experience. Spent $900 with him for a disc brake conversion for my son's 65 Coronet. I live in the DFW area so I did my business in person with him, but this is a big area and he's almost 40 miles from me. He was very nice on the initial purchase, but when we had problems he became not so nice.
First problem is he gave me the wrong parts. I wanted to use the 11.75 rotors and he mistakenly gave me the caliper brackets for the smaller ones. So we had to make a second 80 mile round trip to swap them out. That's fine, everyone makes mistakes, I wasn't upset about it.
Then came the bad part. We bought a power brake setup, including the booster. The booster and M/C came bolted together and he said it was ready to bolt on. So we went to bench bleed the M/C and I could not get any piston movement from the M/C. We pumped and pumped and got nothing. I took the booster and M/C apart and found that he had forgotten to put in the brake rod that goes from the booster to the M/C!
So I call him and tell him what happened. He tells me that's NEVER happened before, kinda sounding like he doesn't believe me. But the does say that he's going out of town to a show and he'll leave one on his porch for me. I was not looking forward to wasting most of another Saturday driving down there and back (I can only do it on the weekend because of work). This was a Wednesday and I asked if he would mail it. He reluctantly agreed, but then I started thinking it wouldn't get here by Saturday and we really couldn't continue without it anyway.
Anyway, I guess I wasn't making my mind up fast enough and he told me he was getting ready to go and didn't have time to waste on me making up my mind. It was only a few seconds, by the way. So that made me mad and I told him that this wasn't my fault and I didn't appreciate him talking to me that way. Then he hung up on me. I tried to call him back but he wouldn't answer. So I emailed him and asked if he was still going to leave the rod on his porch as I didn't want to drive down there for nothing. He never answered me. It was very unprofessional to say the least.
I decided I had had enough of him and I'd just chalk it up to experience and solve the problem myself. I found a rod at Wildcat Salvage in Oregon for $35. Unfortunately when I got it I found it was too long. Guess it was for a different year. I had made one by using some steel rod and rounding off one end that I intended to use only temporarily. As most of you probably know, those rods have a washer on them. I'm not sure of it's function but I figured there's a reason for it to be there. But I figured my custom rod would work for bleeding and testing the brakes.
After I got it all set up and bled, we drove around the neighborhood slowly. The brakes were not right. You had to practically stand on them with both feet to get the car to stop, even with the power setup. The brakes were not mushy at all, so I know they were completely bled. But it took so much pedal pressure it was unsafe.
So by this point I was so disgusted I ordered a Raybestos 15/16 bore M/C from RockAuto and put that on without the booster. It worked great! In Ehrenberg's article he says you don't really need power brakes and he is right.
So we're going to stay with the manual setup. I don't know if this booster is bad, if the M/C is bad, or both. We spent $900 with Wayne for a set of calipers/pads, spindles/bearings and caliper brackets. Plus $35 for a brake rod I can't use and $40 more for the Raybestos manual M/C. I know there are a lot of people in the Mopar community that like him, but my experience was not good. Plus, I didn't go through it all because it would take too long, but there were many times throughout this fiasco that I could not get Wayne on the phone or get him to respond to my emails for days, similar to what ab7fh is going through now.
I have two more Mopars to restore and I will be going with another option for the brakes.
