Here is some background on my specific truck: I had the rear drums turned, the fronts were not as bad, so I left them be. I rebuild the wheel cylinders, since they were in bad shape, replaced one of them. Put in a new master cylinder. Put in new brake shoes. Replaced the brake lines. When it was all said and done, the only benefit I could see was my brake fluid wasn't leaking out of one of the wheel cylinders anymore. Other than that, I didn't seen any big difference in the brakes. I was pretty disappointed, given all the work I put into and the cost of parts. I am going to try and bleed the brakes one more time, just to make sure that isn't the problem. In addition I am going to have someone look at the star wheel adjusters to see if that can improve it. If none of this works, I will be looking at the booster/dual master cylinder kit mentioned above. It doesn't look like converting a 3/4 ton to disc brakes is an easy task from what I can see. Any thoughts after reading this additional info???


1956 Chevy 3100 Stepside Shortbox
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