- #1960 thunderbird power steering reservoir drivers
- #1960 thunderbird power steering reservoir manual
He also has all the adapter fittings in brass (like for your Brake Light Switch). We get these components from Dave master cylinders, two-stage boosters (with short clevis pins) and combination proportioning valves. Old Irish Dave never did sell brackets or spacers for Squarebirds. It's much easier to 'double-flare' than steel and lasts forever. He used all brass fittings and IFF nuts, and rust-proof brake line called, CUNIFER. Look carefully at his pictures: CLICK HERE NYsquarebird58 (Marcelo) lives in the Ossining, NY region of the 'rust belt'. I like the GM-style because it has two mounting holes in the body. Any time you split the front/rear hydraulic systems you need a proportional valve. It works beautifully.īTW, we use a Corvette-style, 1" bore, dual reservoir master cylinder. His bracket lifts the two-stage 8" booster five inches and brings it out from the firewall another five inches. Howard Prout designed and made his bracket. If you make your own firewall bracket, all the necessary space can be incorporated into one bracket. In this example, Grant used the 'extra spacer for A/C equipped' T-birds. The diameter is the same as the old booster, so it fits our Squarebirds: We use a two-stage 8" booster for disk brakes because caliper cylinders need hundreds of psi more than shoe cylinders. The difference in stopping is that profound. Everyone on this forum has said, they will never go back to driving their Squarebird on drum brakes. If you pack your family in your classic car and drive on Interstate highways, you need disk brakes.
#1960 thunderbird power steering reservoir drivers
Drum brakes are marginal at best and new drivers have no clue or respect for heavy cars without disk brakes. When everyone else had them, drivers kept a safe distance, which was ok. I have a low opinion of front drum brakes. A/C equipped cars used an additional spacer that extended the booster even farther from the firewall, but 8" diameter fits. This factory setup was for drum brake Squarebirds without A/C.
Notice a few things: The center of the brake pedal rod is far below the center of the booster rod (peeking through the top hole) and the booster sits out from the firewall quite a bit. Sorry for the bad quality pic but this is an original power brake setup from a 1960 Thunderbird. The 'new' vacuum booster is 8" in diameter which will not fit without a special firewall bracket. For power brake setups, in late '59-1960 Ford upgraded from the treadlevac system to the vacuum booster in the engine bay.
#1960 thunderbird power steering reservoir manual
For a manual M/C setup there is plenty of room. Squarebirds are different from all other Ford Cars as their master sits very low on the firewall, close to the steering linkage. He sold brake components to Tom but he forgot about the firewall bracket requirements for Squarebirds. Yesterday, Old Irish Dave (Dave McCabe) called me with a couple concerns. box either - Dave?.Yes Eric I hear you knocking, my friend. There is a modern replacement dual action booster available (much better than original) but I don't think they clear the evap. My home made extension to clear the factory style A/C evaporator box that I was addingĮdit - I see Ray beat me to the answers to some of the questions - Thanks Ray! That's just what I can think of "off the cuff" - probably will come up with a few other things. Probably some wiring also when you move the brake light switch. You'll have to do some plumbing to extend the lines out to the new master cyl location. Some have just left them in place and added the external booster. You may have to replace the pedal bracket if you want to eliminate the under dash booster all together or come up with a creative pedal rod. I made my own booster extender and also extended the pedal rod (which is actually flat and not a rod) when I modified my non A/C car to include A/C. You can have Power Brake Booster Exchange modify it to accept the newer style master cyl but that doesn't help you with the evaporator box clearance if you have A/C. Also the standard Bendix booster has 4 bolts and won't accept a modern style master cyl without modification. There was a dealer kit ( COSZ-2A251-A) that moved the Bendix booster out when A/C was added to standard cars having A/C added at the dealer. If your car has A/C the standard (original) Bendix booster that came on the cars will not work without an additional 1 3/4 extension.
Usually the cars with the booster under the dash have A/C. Main question is does you car have A/C - that will make a big difference.
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