Brake Mods for Servoless TCS

[BDA]

Thanks for reminding me. There is a thread on that somewhere here and I remember it was successful. Try some searches.

[dakazman]

  Surf I'm glad your posting this now.
 Are the drawings i the relaxed or applied position?  Anything past due north 0 degrees my pedal is almost hitting
the wall. Raising up the entire pedal assembly would throw the entire rearward due to it sitting on a 15 degree angle. \
 thanks for posting the angle from a rearward relaxed angle , which I thought was incorrect.
Dakazman

[Kendo]

If not moving the pedal assembly up, how about tilting the MC downward to align the rod to the MC? (It's been a while since I did brake work, so I don't remember if there would be clearance for tilting the MC.)

[dakazman]

It’s on a center fulcrum thru the the frame .  The mc is on one side and the pedal assembly on the other. . It’s a direct link as far as I recall. Some mods are direct witch is what they are talking about.
Confused,
Dakazman

[surfguitar58]

Hey guys, sorry I haven’t checked in in a while. My few remaining brain cells, and the skin on my knuckles, have been devoted to restoring a 60 yo 40 ft sailboat. The car hasn’t been getting as much love as it deserves.

Regarding this brake pedal mod, I honestly have not gotten around to trying it out. It appears to be an easy solution, especially since the studs on my pedal assembly are about 1/2 inch too long. Blocking up the pedals 3/8” and drilling a new clevis hole 3/8” closer to the fulcrum would give about a 30% increase in brake force if I recall, but my recall ain’t so good, so someone should check me on that.

On the other hand, I have pretty much grown accustomed to the boosterless brakes needing to be applied with authority, although it scares the crap out of the poor technician who does my annual Mass RMV safety inspection.

Tom

[Clifton]

Full disclosure, I have a dual tandem master cylinder set up but I used the long factory rod to my pivot and mounting MC mounting holes so that end is the same as stock. I am already running a 5/8 bore on the front so I can't go smaller so I redrilled lower. Slight increase in travel. Big increase in pedal feel. Less effort to do hard stops and modulate. My new hole is forward of the original hole so the rod lengths doesn't need to be charged to keep the same pedal position.