FomocoReformed
Well-Known Member
So while I'm laid up from working on the car with my hand injury I've been going over my plans in detail for putting everything back together and I have a question about the master cylinder.
My car was originally a manual brake car with 9in drums on all 4 corners. I now have a 73+ front disc setup with proportioning valve and the rear is an 8.8 from an explorer with the ford discs on it. I'd like to retain manual brakes since I love how they work when properly set up. Also for space saving in the engine bay. I know I need to buy a new master cylinder for the front discs but would a stock manual/disc master cylinder also be able to correctly actuate the ford rear discs or am I going to have a problem with incorrect hydraulic pressure in the lines? I think I remember reading something in the past about the rear drum setup MCs not completely releasing pressure from the lines to the drums, or I could be thinking of something completely different my memory isn't so great.
Any help on what MC I should use would be appreciated, or if I can modify a stock MC to work with the ford read discs. :burnout:
My car was originally a manual brake car with 9in drums on all 4 corners. I now have a 73+ front disc setup with proportioning valve and the rear is an 8.8 from an explorer with the ford discs on it. I'd like to retain manual brakes since I love how they work when properly set up. Also for space saving in the engine bay. I know I need to buy a new master cylinder for the front discs but would a stock manual/disc master cylinder also be able to correctly actuate the ford rear discs or am I going to have a problem with incorrect hydraulic pressure in the lines? I think I remember reading something in the past about the rear drum setup MCs not completely releasing pressure from the lines to the drums, or I could be thinking of something completely different my memory isn't so great.
Any help on what MC I should use would be appreciated, or if I can modify a stock MC to work with the ford read discs. :burnout: