Mark;

I agree with you about the booster and valve cover clearence on my friends car. I don't know what he was thinking. The motor is a 390 (I think) so maybe they don't have to be lifted as high to come off the heads.

Are you doing the Granada conversion with "Drop & Stop" spindles and parts or are you making up your own? The new owner of Drop and Stop has a few sets of braided stainless brake lines if you want to upgrade from the rubber ones. I bought a set because my rubber lines were chafing on the frame a bit.

Rono

  Ron Lane,  Meridian, ID

Ron, I bought used spindles, etc. and reamed them myself. Braided lines seem like a good upgrade. I have Mustang II/Pinto hoses now that fit well. Funny how all those folks using Pinto front ends don't want to talk about it. I have also had good luck with Poly-Armor bendable brake lines that can be formed by hand. Used those on my Galaxie. I need to come up with some thread size compatible banjo fittings and lines to go from the master cylinder to the combo valve and then to the distribution points. Sorting out the fitting sizes and threads is not my strong suit. For the hydraulic clutch, I think the Wilwood slave and master clutch cylinder is very doable but need to make a clean and organized installation plan. Instead of welding a clutch pedal pivot to the clutch pedal arm I may drill and tap it instead using a shoulder bolt.

57 Black Tbird 312/auto

I have the Drop em & stop em brakes and spindles and the Borgeson power steering, hence the need for a hydraulic clutch.



http://www.fordmuscleforums.com/transmission-articles/481776-hydraulic-clutch-classic-ford.html



This is a post from a Mustang site that shows some of the things that they have done. In a couple of the videos you will see that the M/C is mounted inside the car. In one case on top of the clutch/brake pedal box. I don't know if that's possible on our cars.



Rono, is your friend still building his car or has he tried out the hydraulic clutch yet? Also I see that he shortened the clutch release leave and mounted the slave cylinder pull rod close to where it enters the bell housing. It would be good to know how much throw on the slave cylinder is needed and how short the clutch release lever should be.



Charlie, I was told that the master cylinder and slave cylinder from a later pickup could be used, LMC truck carries these parts for '57-60 trucks. It would be nice to see a picture of both the slave cylinder mounting on a truck and also how the truck clutch pedal looks compared to a car and the relationship between the truck clutch pedal and the M/C.

Mark

1956 Mercury M100
1955 Ford Fairlane Club Sedan
Delta, British Columbia

I know that my friend Paul is still working on his 57 Custom 300 so I doubt if he has actually tested the clutch. I can ask him why he cut down the release fork.

Rono

  Ron Lane,  Meridian, ID

Thanks Rono, probably so that he would get the correct amount of movement in the clutch release arm. If it works for him it would be nice to know the dimension.

Mark

1956 Mercury M100
1955 Ford Fairlane Club Sedan
Delta, British Columbia

I like this set up. With some detailing it could look good.



http://www.fordmuscleforums.com/attachments/transmission-articles/8980d1248734830-hydraulic-clutch-classic-ford-clutchpedalbracket.jpg

57 Black Tbird 312/auto

My friend Paul said that the clutch fork on his set-up is the stock length. It was not cut shoter. Probably just a different shape than the Y Block clutch forks.

Rono

  Ron Lane,  Meridian, ID

Thanks Rono, I thought about that and remembered you said it was not a y-block.

Mark

1956 Mercury M100
1955 Ford Fairlane Club Sedan
Delta, British Columbia

Hey all, kinda funny I ran across this. This picture is mine, how I mounted mine in my 56. I dont have a y-block, but I was out here searching for power steering using the granada stuff and ran across this thread. I am running a 347 stroker in mine (302 block) and a tko 600 trans, basically the same as a tremec 3550 but beefier. I dont know if its of interest to you since we are using different engines and trans, but if so I can tell yall what I did.

Thanks for the post. I for one would like to know all about it. What M/C and slave cylinder did you use?

Mark

1956 Mercury M100
1955 Ford Fairlane Club Sedan
Delta, British Columbia