I dunno. I'm learning to live with mine. Like with you, mine works pretty well. But it's a [censored] to check my brake fluid level and refill it. I pretty much have to do it by touch.

OldSub, I thought this would be of interest to others concerned with their 60-year old brakes going out on them. I didn't have any questions. The inventor of the brake conversion kit lives in New Mexico, and I got his information from Speedway, who sells some of his stuff. But instead, I noted a 5-page long thread on people wondering how to modernize the brakes, and here I mentioned the parts are readily available. So whatever.