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We wrapped up all the installation today. Finally. I got the last 2 lines tight, got the vacuum line hooked up to the booster and the vac tree. My son got the pedal and the brake switch back on. I got the system full of fluid ready to start bleeding. Thats when we lost the daylight. So all...

Also of note, I believe if its a CJ or SCJ you will see CJ or SCJ scratched into the casting in the bell housing area.

Thanks for all the help Don. The fittings that go into the top of that wilwood prop valve are damn near impossible to get a wrench on. I got them as tight as I could but they need more. Now that they are snug, I should be able to move the prop valve a bit or bend the lines a bit so I can get...

Got it done right at dark. Glad that's over with. Now we can bleed it tomorrow. Booster. Master getting those lines to line up and start on both ends was not an easy task. Then tightening them with less than no room was no fun either. I wish I had the funds to tear it apart and...

Damn David, you are a bundle of cool information as always. I have wondered about the bumper paint. I have seen a couple of pictures of 71-73 Mach 1's with an oddball color with chrome bumpers. I guess now I know why.

Thank you sir! I am going to take off a bit early today so I can at least have an hour or so of daylight when I get home. I have the master ready to install. Then it will be just a matter of bleeding the lines. Hopefully we can get that done and see what we got.

They had the new season of Autobiography on MT last night, and it was all about Ford vs Ferrari. The real story. They even had Matt Damon and Christian Bale on there too. What a terrific story. I never really know about it because I was 1 years old when it happened. Ken Miles really was an...

Pictures or it didnt happen. lol So glad to see you getting back in action.

Thanks again Don. Oh, do you know if that type of master cylinder cap will rust?

looking at my bracket, It looks like theres only 1 hole, so I think that answers that part at least.

Thanks for the quick response Don!  Your awesome as usual. Heres another questions for you. Looking thru the brake booster instructions, Found this diagram about the pedal.  I dont know if this is accurate for a 71 though.  In a 71 I think it goes in the same hole as the manual drum pedal.  If...

I went ahead and bench bled the master cylinder tonight. I have a question.  On my drum car, the rear chamber was for the front circuit and the front chamber was for the rear. I have a disc master like this.... And I was wondering if its still the same way, front for rear, rear for front.

We got the booster in today! The whole problem was the brake lines aren't secured to the firewall and were in the way. I feel stupid now because my son said that was the problem. We couldn't get the clips to stay on. They fell off going down the road, so I need to order some new clips and...

I think we will be fine now. A bit of grinding gave some more clearance. I'm going to ditch the booster gasket and use permatex. The big issue is the bracket is about 1/16-1/8" from the firewall. The built in nut on the bracket that was drilled out left 1/4" ring around each hole. We had...

At least you found something. How far are you tearing it down?

We tried just trimming out the plate between the booster bracket and the firewall but we ran in to this.... As you can see the bolts on the booster are not long enough with the 2 spacer plates. So were trying to cut away the rubber insulation in order to access the spacer plates. I think the...

I think a cheaper and much easier option would be to modify the seat location or the seat slider. You can go about this in several ways. You could cut out the seat pan and move it back a bit. You could get a seat track set with a much longer travel range and cut and weld it into the original...

I was tied up all weekend but we did manage to get a couple of things done. We got the old pedal out, drilled out the bracket and sawzalled the cover plate. Then we test fitted the booster then ran out of daylight. Hopefully we can get the booster bolted on and the pedal hooked back up...

we looked at it all yesterday evening in the dark, and I think we have decided to just sawzall the plate out and drill out the bracket and swap pedals in place. So my son is going to work on that a little today hopefully. then im hoping we can finish up this weekend.

I'll be back on it this weekend, maybe I can make some progress. I'm wondering if I can get that plate out without removing the bracket. If not, I think were gonna try unbolting the steering column and dropping it down to access the bolt that holds the pedal bracket on. I would prefer to...