I want to switch to a ranger master cyl just for the fact it looks a ton better and mine right now leaks. My car currently has front disc and rear drums which I plan on switching to explorer discs next winter (I have a Torino style 9") but my question I will I have any issues running the mc with the rear drums, will they bleed correctly? Function and stop my car correctly? I've seen a few others who have it but safety is #1 when your attempting to go fast.
Some 90's are SAE and some are metric. Some have the ports on the left and some of them are on the right. Some are 15/16" bore and some have a 1-1/8" bore. Find the right year, month, day and go for it. The bolt pattern on the firewall are all the same
are you referring to... ranger master cyl ...with Disc/Drum brakes? "safety is #1 when your attempting to go fast." so why ask the question to start with...do it all at the same time.
In 99.9% of the cases you'll have to re-plumb the lines as fitting size varies by application... I couldn't locate any disc brake M/C that would direct swap to my Comet... Wound up using one for a '74 with P/B, replaced the fittings with correct size and reused the rod from the orig drum brake cyl... Bore diameter is 15/16 or same as the '69 Torino that donated the spindles... There are adapters avail for some sizes to reduce or increase fitting size, I did use one on the rear section of M/C(front brakes), but there was no adapter made to go from 3/8 female to a 9/16 female that rear brakes used on orig...
I did the swap on mine, and it had the SAE fittings. I might have just gotten lucky when I got it though. I initially used mine on the factory 8" with drums, and am currently using the same mc after my conversion to AeroSpace rear disks when I switched to the 9" a few years ago. Only issue I've ever had was last year at the Bracket Nationals when a chunk of my flexplate departed and sliced right through the brake lines! Went to slow down after crossing the finish line, and had NO brake pedal at all...zero resistance, you could push the pedal to the floor with a finger lol. Finally coasted to a stop, swapped out a new Huggies, used a bandaid compression connection to get the car loaded on the trailer, and called it a season. Have you done a search on here? That thread about the swap should be on here somewhere...but rthomas was my source for info on it, so he's the man!
Not sure about "better"...but the Ranger mc is one of the plastic units with screw on caps instead of the heavy metal original ones with the clamp on top.
Yeah I did a bunch of searches and only found one that had a tiny bit of info wasn't his though... If it's metric and I can't get the adapter fittings I can always just cut the end off and re-flare with a metric head on it. This "original" mc is just ugly, heavy and leaks. Time for it to go. Pretty scary ride you had there btw... Good thing you had enough space to coast. Can you remember which year yours is from by any chance?
