How Do I hate Rebuilt Components? Brake Booster

[240260280]

Blue will not be embellished with stickers. It is a test mule ?

[Captain Obvious]

What'cha testing?

Besides your previously disclosed rust test...  

[gundee]

Wondering. For those of you that have taken a booster apart, how difficult was it to separate the housing?

Did you fabricate a tool like shown in the FSM to twist it apart?

[240260280]

10 hours ago, Captain Obvious said:

What'cha testing?

Besides your previously disclosed rust test...  

Next up will be carbs and new linkage mods... then a single 55DCO with custom manifold.

[Patcon]

12 hours ago, Lumens said:

Wondering. For those of you that have taken a booster apart, how difficult was it to separate the housing?

Did you fabricate a tool like shown in the FSM to twist it apart?

Yes, I have done it. I did make up a tool for leverage. They can be difficult to reassemble. I found that squeezing the two shells together made assembly possible

[Namerow]

19 hours ago, Patcon said:

I did make up a tool for leverage

Here's a picture of that tool, copied from 240260280's rebuild write-up on the old AtlanticZ website.  A pragmatic solution (and environmentally sustainable, too!)

[Captain Obvious]

That wooden "tool" looks very similar to what I did as well.

Mine's shorter though, and I screwed a couple blocks to the ends that I can squeeze together with my vise.  I lost leverage because my planks are shorter, but I gained force by being able to put it in my large bench vise.

[Patcon]

My tool was similar but I used a piece of plywood in the center with 2x4 arms screwed to each end. About 5' long overall. I used some wood working clamps to squeeze it with the bottom half held by a vise. Lots of leverage