I've lost the brakes on a single master cylinder car twice. Neither time
had anything to do with the lines-first time was the master cylinder, the
second time was a wheel cylinder. I'd go with a dual MC, and it's not a
difficult swap.
~dave
On Tue, 10 Feb 2004, Bryan Scott wrote:
> Hi all! I'm re-doing the brakes on my 58, from the MC down to the wheel
> cylinders. It's currently a single MC with power brakes and all drums.
> From all I've read and heard, I was convinced that it would be best to
> install a dual MC. Now I read the following comment from the FAQ page on
> inlinetube.com:
>
> My car has a single master should I switch to a dual master?
> If you are keeping the four wheel drum there is no reason to convert to a
> dual master. The fear is that if you loose one line all the brakes will go.
> The solution is stainless steel lines. They will never rust and it will be
> impossible to ever loose a line. When converting to a dual master you will
> need a new master cylinder ,some sort of block that will accept the second
> master cylinder line and new clips to hold the additional lines in place.
> When you are all done you may have affected the performance of the brakes
> with mismatched components resulting in a stronger or weaker brake pedal.
> Solve the safety problem with new Inline tubes.
>
> Now I'm back to being unsure what direction to go. I already planned on
> using the SS lines. The purpose of this posting is to ask for comments and
> experiences of others to finally decide what direction is best!
>
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