Re: [Chrysler300] Power brake booster for K + http://www.63chrysler.com/

[Sean Duggan <saduggan@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

My brake booster went out in 62 a few years ago and in my many trips  
to the junkyard I picked up a Midland-Ross unit to use temporarily.  
It's been five years and I keep meaning to get the original ( I  
think) Bendix booster rebuilt. I put the Midland-Ross booster on with  
the master cylinder that came with it. Had a bit of pedal travel at  
first due to the bore of the master cylinder being 7/8" as opposed to  
1" (the booster came out of a 63). Since then I've changed the front  
spindles and brakes to 64 units, $50 at a junkyard and a vast  
improvement over the 62 brakes. Pedal travel is perfect and the  
brakes have been working great for years.

Sean Duggan
Los Angeles

On Sep 18, 2007, at 9:02 AM, John wrote:

> When I was a teenager in the 1970s with a 360HP 300-K, I had a  
> booster fail - It was the Midland-Ross unit that had the front &  
> rear halves held together by a clamp band, as it's described in the  
> factory workshop manual -
>
> http://www.imperialclub.com/Yr/1964/FSM/html/05-017.htm
>
> (I found the 1964 Chrysler Workshop Manual online from the Imperial  
> site from a link located on http://www.63chrysler.com/ , which  
> caters to 1963 & 1964 Chryslers)
>
> As I was on a low budget, I had planned to buy & install a used  
> unit. I went down to a local salvage yard, and snooped under the  
> hoods of a dozen Mopars - I came up with a couple other Midland- 
> Ross units - they were found in other than C-body cars as well -  
> Dodge Coronets and the like. The one I bought was bad also, so I  
> disassembled mine & the one I just bought. Luckily, different  
> rubber parts (bellows and diaphragm) inside each were damaged in  
> each of the units, and I was able to successfully build one good  
> booster that lasted for the remainder of my ownership of the car.
>
> I would imagine that the entire Midland-Ross unit is  
> interchangeable with the Bendix unit, though I've never tried it -  
> I've had the M-R unit on at least 10 out of the 15 or so 1963 &  
> 1964 Chryslers I've had over the years, and they were on each of  
> the 360HP Ks I've had.
>
> Whe I get to it, I'll need to rebuild the remote booster on my ram  
> K - anyone have good luck with one of the previously-mentioned firms?
>
> John Spiers
> Lake Worth, Florida
> 300-D, 300-K ram convertible
>
> Kenny Cassady <kennycassady@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I'm sure there are always good and not-so-good stories about every  
> vendor
> out there. But, for what it's worth, I'll second the suggestion of  
> Karp's
> in Upland, CA. I've had several early '60s Chryslers brake boosters  
> rebuilt
> by them, and they always do a good job. The only problem I had was  
> when one
> failed within a few drives, and they quickly re-rebuilt it at no  
> charge. I
> recently arranged for an "extra" booster to be sent to them to  
> rebuild for
> my 300G, and when they received it, they identified it as incorrect  
> for a G
> and sent it back to the source at no charge to me, because they  
> knew I'd use
> them again in the future. They know what they're doing and service is
> great.
>
> Good luck,
>
> Kenny Cassady
> Oakland, CA
> 300G
>
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