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By mrmike - 8 Years Ago
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I am trying to fix some things on my car that I didn't take care of beforehand before Cruising time gets here. I installed the aftermarket Power Brake conversion kit a few years ago & didn't install any metering or residual valves. My car always lunged with the front brake catching first. I just have the 2 lines (front & back ) going to the Dual master cylinder.
What can I do to make this setup better? What parts should I install?. I saw one diagram for Drum/Drum with a metering valve with 1 port in & two out with each one going to each front brake. And they have just a 10lb residual going to the rear brakes. Any help will be appreciated as I would like to correct this ! Thanks, Mike
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By charliemccraney - 8 Years Ago
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Drum brake master cylinders often have the residual valve built in. You would need to determine that.
The easiest way to do it would be to find a vehicle with the same type of setup and similar weight distribution and use the combination valve off of that.
If there is not one close enough, then it will need to be individual components.
Here's some good info about how it should be set up.
http://www.ecihotrodbrakes.com/brake_facts.html
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By Talkwrench - 8 Years Ago
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I take it its the Corvette style 1" one ? If you have the correct one you should not need anything. You plumbed the front brakes to the front of the m/cyl ? By this time our brakes should all be overhauled , lines, flexible lines, wheel cylinders , the lot.. There is a big difference when things are working as they should..
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By mrmike - 8 Years Ago
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 My Unit looks like this one. The rod is the same and when I tried to install it, it was too long so I shortened it, & drilled a new hole. It worked but not very well. It just didn'[t have enough travel.
I fabricated a new rod the other day & with some careful measurements ,got it all back together. Since this post, I took it down the road yesterday & the brakes worked a lot better. I also got my brake lights working right, which I wrote about in another post.
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