Re: KPack's 1954 Panama

Posted by Ross On 2020/6/11 20:36:01
And if you would prefer to just have the normal manual brakes I have all of that stuff.

A word about dual masters: unless the brake pedal system is engineered to give the full stroke the new master cylinder requires it avails NOTHING. Some of my Studebaker customers have bought dual master cylinder upgrade kits and I have even installed them. In every instance I find that when one bleeder screw is opened there are NO brakes as the pedal can not stroke the cylinder far enough. So the "upgrade" is a fools paradise.

In actual practice brake tubing only fails by rusting , and that mostly but not always from outside, or some sort of bizarre trauma. In 48 years of fooling with old cars I have not yet seen a brake hose burst although I have seen them plug. All that to say that you can actually buy a very high level of safety by merely replacing all of your brake tubing and hoses. I am emphatic on this point: there should be no Packards running around with their original brake tubing at this age. For about $30 you can install the wonderful new nickel-copper lines from stem to stern and have genuine safety for your family. By the way, new wheel cylinders and master are available for you car for little money.

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