Hi all Stovebolters

I am waist deep into a 1952/53 Chevy truck rebuild and I bought last winter a disc brake conversion from the CPP company and I wanted to share a tip with all you disc brake guys....

I have been trying to bleed my new braking system for over 2 weeks and everytime it was something else was leaking...the most major leaker were the front calipers...they both leaked...talked to the tech guys at CPP and they wanted me to ship them back to them so they could investigate and see what was going on with them...I would of course I would pay shipping and if they thought their product was at fault I would be sent another in 5 to 7 business days....well the heck with that...
I talked them into telling me what the calipers originally came off of and it is a 1978 Chevy C10 front disc brake caliper....make sure you get a 7/16" banjo bolt as the CPP one is metric thread...no leaks from the Advance auto brake caliper that was $20.00 plus core charge...ran me about $35.00 to $38.00 without a core...still not sure if I wanna waste more money shipping their stuff back to them...I will probably keep them as core if I ever do this Stovebolt truck thing again...(thinking not)

Just wanted to throw that tip out there...this stuff is so frustrating to me...you spend good money on a "bolt-on" kit and nothing works right...so if you buy the CPP kit be prepared to swap out the calipers...their stuff is not machined correctly.

MikeC

1951 Chevy 3800 1-Ton
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