I have a 67 Mustang that I am about to replace the brakes on. It came with factory disc in the front and I have some Wilwoods that should fit on the spindles. I ordered a proportioning/distribution block rebuild kit from WCCC, as well as a rebuilt proportioning valve. I am trying to decide between using the repro proportioning valve or going with a setup relocated to the front.
The Wilwoods being more powerful than the stock 67 brakes might benefit from an adjustable valve setup. My question is if I go about this, how do I bridge the gap in the brake line where the original proportioning valve was located? Could I just use my old proportioning valve with the piston removed?
Thanks in advance to anyone that can help on this.
Any good auto part store will sell an adapter fitting to connect the two hard lines. Or you could just use a longer hard line in place of the two. Again any good auto part store sells the brake lines prefabricated in a variety of lengths and diameters.
Thanks Royce. I honestly didn’t think of that. I am slightly out of my element here but this is the best way to learn! I’ll follow up when I get it all sorted.
I suggest getting a double flaring tool and tube bender and learning how to make your own lines. This will open up possibilities to mounting you won’t have will premade lines. This is especially helpful when adding adjustable proportioning valves as there never seems to be a good place to mount them.
Also I think will wood also makes a bracket and lines to mount them to the master, however it may only work with their master cylinder and not the factory one.
Thanks again. This was my late father’s Mustang, and I think I have inherited some flaring and bending tools too. Doing this all on my own to make him proud and learn.
My father was working at a Ford dealership in 1939 when Mercury was introduced. He was offered a new position as a Mercury Technician as opposed to being a Ford Mechanic. He asked what the difference was and the boss told him it was about a nickle an hour more to work on Mercurys. He took the job. I have the Mercury Technician lapel pin he got when he took the job.
He’s been gone for aver a decade now but I did inherit many of his tools. Some of them are probably close to 80 years old now. I believe that tools take a set when they are used by the same hands for many years and I swear I can feel it in some of those tools. He also left me his collection of nuts and bolts and misc bits and bobs. When I need some odd fastener, I can open up his collection and it seems he is still there helping me, always having the right thing squirreled away in his collection.