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64 f100 swb booster install

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1964 F-100 Custom Cab Short Bed
1968 F-100 Ranger Short Bed
1967 Fairlane 500 Convertable
1967 Fairlane GT/A 289ci SOLD
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Re: 64 f100 swb booster install

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I figured I'd get some kind of response from this post
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Re: 64 f100 swb booster install

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Why did you replace the booster? Was the diaphragm leaking?
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Re: 64 f100 swb booster install

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milomilo wrote:Why did you replace the booster? Was the diaphragm leaking?
My guess is he replaced it because he didn't have one previously..... :)

Others might ask why you didn't change the MC to the duel reservoir type while you were at it....?
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This a nice unit and install...my only fear is the single line master cylinder... I have blown brakelines before with a double line and its scary enough.. It does look good though. As long as you have all new brakelines, and wheel cylinders.... it should be golden for years
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Re: 64 f100 swb booster install

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randyr wrote:
milomilo wrote:Why did you replace the booster? Was the diaphragm leaking?
My guess is he replaced it because he didn't have one previously..... :)

Others might ask why you didn't change the MC to the duel reservoir type while you were at it....?
I did not look at the old one very well. Must be my age.
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Re: 64 f100 swb booster install

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milomilo wrote:
I did not look at the old one very well. Must be my age.

:mrgreen: :mrgreen: I was just kidding around. Certainly meant no offense. :)
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switching to a dual m/c would have been a better upgrade. why do so many people think adding a booster is so much nicer i personally like manual brakes. nice firm brake "feel". i feel the same way about power steering most times. i put power rack swaps in stuff for people before that drove fine but "the wife may drive it some and i want it to have power for her" or some similar excuse. more times than not they regretted the swap. mushy/sponge/no feel brake and twitchy steering guess i don't see those as improvements....
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Re: 64 f100 swb booster install

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Yes 8 agree 10 fold about the dual MC upgrade being done. But though I drive this truck more then My father and I work on the truck more then My father. This truck is still my fathers. Just to put in scale my father. It took me 15 Yrs to talk my father into simply putting a booster on. His thought process is this. He rarely drives it. It hasn't towed aNything since the 80s and it hasn't hauled anything besides camping gear since the 90s. It's just the old farm truck with a paint job. The only reason the original straight 6 isn't still in the truck is because it blew up and the 289 and c4 were free.

But the good news is the brake lines were replaced in 97 during the restoration. if I could of had it my way I would have installed dual lines and dual MC.

thanks for the compliments. :mrgreen:
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Yeah I didn't mean to lecture or anything... I just got scared one time and so I bring it up... Its a pretty cool, ole truck with history.. the best kind of truck to have.
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randyr wrote:
milomilo wrote:
I did not look at the old one very well. Must be my age.

:mrgreen: :mrgreen: I was just kidding around. Certainly meant no offense. :)
None taken.
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Re: 64 f100 swb booster install

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Thanks guys

Hey do the addco sway bars for these straight I beam trucks help body role at all?

Might be the next project.
1964 F-100 Custom Cab Short Bed
1968 F-100 Ranger Short Bed
1967 Fairlane 500 Convertable
1967 Fairlane GT/A 289ci SOLD
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