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Hey Aaron. I took your advice and decided to come back for awhile. See what happens.

Stock brake pressure is around 800 PSI max. I have a pressure gauge on my system. Like Peashooter said, going with a Hydraulic HydroMax system is the "Cadillac" way to go but it would be pricey. After awhile just taking your axles out and putting them under a modern truck for a 6X6 rigg makes...

Are you referring to the "Hydra-Boost" type booster ? There on the frames for safety reasons. These are either vacuum boosted or pressure boosted units, depending on enginee type ie: Diesel/Gas. Is that what your asking ? I've gone back and reread several pages to get up to speed here, and it...

Glad to hear it ! The TM is a rare one I own. It has all the "air" components for the deuce like the air compressors and relays and air-pacs. I posted the rebuild information for the air-pacs here at Steel soldiers. It is in the TM section.

You have your lines mixed up. Use this diagram. It is for the "long style" but the fitting locations are the same. I also decided to post this picture of the "short style" showing the correct way to connect the lines.

Hey Aaron, glad you jumped in on here. As far as the residual check valves go, they are pressed in. You can use a screw and slid-hammer to remove them if you need to. For all the rest of you here. Peashooter is one of the most read-up and knowledgeable on the "Master cylinder" and "Wheel...

The "Breda" bus or "Tunnel" bus (made in Italy) for "Seattle Metro" was a dual brake configuration. Air brakes to the two rear axles, and hydraulic brakes to the giant front caliper brakes. It took awhile to get it to work properly, but after about 5 years we got it dialed in pretty good.

The 60% port would go to the rear on the Deuce. Normally the 60% would go to the front due to caliper brakes needing more fluid. On the Deuce the 60% goes to the rear wheel cylinders. The 60% port should be the one nearest to the mounting flange Almost all dual brake master cylinders have a...

Actually the output of the master cylinder can be 60% , 40% . The dual system always runs the front brakes separate from the rear. Since the rear has 4 wheel cylinders and the front only 2 you could get away with a differential between systems. In fact I've been looking at this and most all...

That's looking pretty good to me ! Are you then going to remount it to the old bracket with bolts or welding it ?

Thanks. I knew there was a 3 in there somewhere !

Just use the same bore size as the A3 style master cylinder. Off the top of my head I believe it is 1-3/8" . Or is it 1-1/2" ? All the master cylinders that fit our 4 bolt mounting will be almost identical in length, at least that is what I have found.

I believe you would run into legal problems real fast. The DOT really frowns on modifying brakes from the "norm" . Going to a modern dual master cylinder is fine. After all that is modern technology now. Adding calipers the same thing, but going with a weird dual "physically individual" master...

Those are steel ? Then wow ! He did a great job on them !

Those are some nice aluminum pieces, but can he make them out of steel ?

The only problem with any type of casting is you need the "pattern" to be larger then the finished product. This is due to "shrinkage" , and I'm not referring to "Jerry Seinfield" either ! I used to cast aluminum and brass back when I had my own small foundry. I still have some "molds" my...

Looks great !!! Now if you could only print that out in steel !

That's correct. Though you can use the larger wheel cylinders on the front of a M35A2 deuce.

There is no "cheap" way to isolate any leaking wheel cylinder or broken line. By the time you realize the brake line is broken all the fluid would be gone. That is why the "hydraulic Fuse" would not work. The only thing you can realistically do, is keep spare brake fluid on hand and extra rubber...

First download the retrofit document in the deuce download section. You will also need to buy another air-pac. The brake lines are easy to make up yourself. Peashooter (Aaron) has a sticky on parts.