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Jul 21st, 2025 | | | | Joined: Aug 2022 Posts: 100 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Aug 2022 Posts: 100 | I recently rebuilt the entire brake system on my ‘46. New master cylinder, all new wheel cylinders, new brake shoes, and all new brake lines and hoses. Bought all the parts from one of the major vendors.
About 90 days out, my new master cylinder failed. The vendor was very good about it and provided a replacement. Now, about 3 months later, my right rear wheel cylinder is leaking!! UGH!!
Is this common? Are the new replacement brake parts that inferior᠁.or have I just had bad luck?
Care taker of a 1946 1/2 ton. Pretty much period correct original. Danny T, from B’ham, Al
| | | | | Joined: Oct 2021 Posts: 5,686 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Oct 2021 Posts: 5,686 | I can't say anything specific about brake parts (yet) but virtually everything you buy today is made by Chinese slaves with virtually no quality control.
They make it so cheaply that the makers don't care how many free replacements they have to give away. It doesn't cost them anything.
Fuel pumps are crap for just about every vehicle I've bought one for in the last dozen years or so. Rubber parts are junk and disintegrate if you look at them sideways.
After two faulty fuel pumps for the AD last year - one straight out of the box, I had the original pump rebuilt. Works perfectly
I saved the master cylinder for the AD because I suspect the one I just installed will fail in a year or so. I figure I'll rebuild the old one or have it done. You could trell by looking at the new one that it was a POS. Rough flash on the casting, etc.
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1950 Chevrolet 3100 (Ol' Roy)
1939 Packard Standard Eight Coupe (The Phantom) | 1956 Cadillac Coupe de Ville (The Bismarck) | 1956 Cadillac Sixty Special Fleetwood (The Godfather) | 1966 Oldsmobile Toronado (The Purple Knif) | 1966 Ford Mustang (Little Red) | 1964 Ford Galaxie 500 coupe | 1979 Ford F-100 | 1976 Ford F-150 (Big Red) | 1995 Ford F-150 (Newt)
| | | | | Joined: Feb 2004 Posts: 28,674 Kettle Custodian (pot stirrer) | | Kettle Custodian (pot stirrer) Joined: Feb 2004 Posts: 28,674 | It's a lot more likely you'll have good luck on brake parts by having the original stuff rebuilt, even if it involves getting the castings sleeved to correct pitting. I'm seriously considering tooling up to rework brake cylinders by installing stainless steel sleeves- - - -Fabricating holding fixtures for a lathe or a mill isn't terribly difficult, and once the fixture is made, sleeving dozens or even hundreds of cylinders becomes a pretty routine operation. It looks like there would be enough demand for the service to make it worthwhile train someone to keep the machinery humming!
Jerry
"It is better to be silent and be thought a fool than to speak and eliminate all doubt!" - Abraham Lincoln
Cringe and wail in fear, Eloi- - - - -we Morlocks are on the hunt!
There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self. - Ernest Hemingway
Love your enemies and drive 'em nuts!
| | | | | Joined: Oct 2005 Posts: 4,168 "Hey! I sound like Darth Vader!! | | "Hey! I sound like Darth Vader!! Joined: Oct 2005 Posts: 4,168 | Jerry, I've known of/used a local company for the last 20 years. They have never slowed down. | | |
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