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Same here, and that leery-ness is one reason I dont use this truck as much as I otherwise would. I intend to jump back into it once the weather warms up a bit, and I'll post up what i end up installing. FWIW, I chatted with a guy at a show last year who had installed a rock crawler style...

Returning to the site after a break from much internet use...... The short answer is no, i haven't made much progress other than amassing a few parts. The long answer is that now I need to take some action. What was to be one of my last drives before putting the deuce away for the road salt...

No, they absolutely do not "need to replaced every year". Thats ridiculous. My fleet has sent trucks to the scrap yard with their original cans still on them. As for the loss of air lockup, I have described possible ways to avoid it in all of my recent posts, though frankly Im not concerned...

The system I described would not suffer from those issues, nor does it use an airpak at all. The only deuce hydraulic brake components retained would be the wheel cylinders. Pressurized air from the tanks, modulated by a standard big rig treadle valve would be sent to one or more big rig...

The guy in that vid, IIRC, is running the electric backup pump as his sole booster. The airpack system on these trucks doesn't work like a standard modern power brake system. The master cylinder is directly operated by the pedal lever which sends fluid down to the separate airpack unit. This...

I definitely get wanting to keep a direct connection, but for me, this concept was in a large part trying to add a dual circuit while getting away from the stock parts that can be hard to find, and cant be fixed out on the road. If you want the extra piece of mind for the air system, the...

Just stopping by, Ive been incredibly busy so I havent found my notes yet. I believe the master I had found was for an 86ish chevy c60 or something similar. The brake pressure number is good to have. I suppose the threaded pushrod on a standard can would allow a bit of travel adjustment and...

I would love to hear from anyone who has done any sort of three axle dual circuit conversion as to what non AF master they used. I'm a bit hung up on the issue of residual pressure valves, as im not 100% sure if they're needed, and some masters had 2, some had 1, and others none. I believe it...

Ive been to North Carolina a bunch, I like it there! Back to the brake system, disregarding the unanswerable question of American tort law, does anyone have any major concerns with a system like I described/ linked to? The way I see it, the system gives us a major margin of safety in the form...

Like I said, its just another option if someone wanted an original brake pedal and fully hydraulic system. The super duty vacuum pump is a smallish electronic pump, and one of the more robust things Ferd ever engineered. They used it on the powerstroke trucks to run hvac, hubs, and boosters on...

You can be sued if someone breaks into your house and hurts themselves... One of the many advantages I see to a system like this is the use of non specialized components. The supply of airpaks isnt infinite, and the last ones were built a long time ago. Personally, I think it would be a waste...

https://www.powerbrakeservice.net/aibrsywi1mac.html?viewfullsite=1 I understand the misery of disappearing links, But most of the pictures I can find might be copyrighted, and I'd rather deal with our mods, so here is a link to a setup that looks like it would work in our rigs.

I suppose I should have clarified that I was looking more for thoughts on the mechanical rather than the legal, but its not invalid as we're never far from the law these days. Hot rodders have been swapping and modding brake and steering systems since about 6 months after cars were invented...

I decided to start a new thread instead of adding more to the enormous dual circuit threads already in existence. Also, these ideas are not new. I came up with them, then did some research and realized they've already been done, even at the OEM level, just apparently not for deuces. Please...