I’m Stuck! Help Me Stop. (advise Please)

I’m in the same camp. Discs front, 11” rears with floor pedals. No problems stopping 33’s. Y’all never tried to roll down a hill with the engine off?

 

I ran the wilwood pedals and master too. They did work, I just got tired of the pedal effort. What length pedal do you run? Are you running wilwood calipers too? My setup was dual masters (one front, one rear). GM 1/2 ton calipers in the front, 11 drums in rear. I thought about improving the manual setup for a while but went hyrdoboost and never looked back.

If you are going to switch to boosted, one benefit to hydroboost over vac boost is that you do get one to two boosted brakes after the engine dies. But after you use the reserve pressure it is a very heavy pedal to be sure. Manual does have that benefit of always being the same and predictable. I am on 35s now and my jeep is not too light (3800 lbs without me in it) which is also a factor.

The hydro clutch is a no brainer for me. I am currently running a speedway pull slave. Works fine but i do go through orings on those slaves. What life do you get out of yours? Mine is in a hot spot, insulation helped some but I have gone through 4 in 8 years or so.

 

LS power never stalls

 

Interesting, that was basically the set up i used. If I was going to keep manual I would have played with the piston size on the master to increase pressure a little. Like I said it worked pretty well, but I always trend toward more power, lol.I cant remember the master piston size I used. Sounds like you have a good formula worked out.

What calipers are you using for the Tracker disks? Front or rear?

 

I was just curious. I was looking at those for my rear disks I am setting up on my 9 inch build, but they were a little thin for the el Dorado calipers.

Hope you recovery is going well!

 

I have Chevy truck discs on the rear to go with my El Dorado calipers on the J-truck 44. But I'm running 6 lug wheels.

I wanted power brakes more for road use then trail time. The LS motor spools up quickly so I wanted to be sure the whoa matched the go.


Mike

 

Just to throw this out there, you can make or buy remote fill kits for under floor master cylinders.

 

how hard was the cj7 pedals

 

I did just the brake pedal so I could add a booster. It wasn't the CJ7 pedal but it wasn't that hard. The hardest part is bracing the swinging pedal to the inside of the cowl. Hard to weld or drill or work up in there.

 

I'm running all stock non-power over the counter 4cyl CJ7 era stuff(to get the hydro clutch stuff). I took the firewall plate also to aid in placement along with the dash brackets to keep the firewall from flexing. The dash to cowl braces take very little modifying for the difference in column placement. A torch is needed to heat up the pedal arms for placement and to get full swing as the floor profile is different. I have the 76-78 CJ/Ford style disks up front and 11" drums in the rear along with the stock proportional valve. I believe the YJ brackets will work also but can't comfirm and all were P/B if you want them. The hydro clutch should work less the slave(internal vs external).

 

If you want to stay under floor but get a dual cylinder set up with reservoirs you can mount on the firewall Richard is making them again. Very easy install. R&Ps New Dual Master Kit
Old article but it gives you the idea. He's making them for Flatty's and CJ's as well as wagons and pickups. He can be reached at 503-504-7011 or RandPCustom4x4@outlook.com

He does not have a website. He's a one man show and isn't terribly computer savvy. He was the one that engineered the conversion long before Herm. I know because I was peripherally involved. I put one on my '59-5 as a test so I could honestly say how it worked. Easy install. I had to reroute/modify brake lines, mount the reservoirs, and I think it was 3 holes I had to drill in the frame. Richard has it designed so the bracket is the template so no guessing where the holes go.

When I rebuild the '5 it will get hanging pedals for basically all the reasons already mentioned.

 

using all over the counter cj7 stuff makes it easy to find parts i bet.

 

Used intermediate pedals and mc on the boys 70.