brake pushrod

[mauve66]

finally getting around to finishing the disk brake swap and took the old booster off the firewall with the interior linkage intact. I was going to see if the old pushrod would fit into the new NON-POWER master cylinder but I can't get the rod out of the back of the booster, what's the hiccup??? No, I'm not drinking

[amxauto-x]

It's got a "keeper" in there. You have to "jerk" it out. As I remember. Look closely with a flashlight. You should be able to see the plastic ring.

[mauve66]

the front part of the rod with the adjustable screw part that goes into the master cylinder came out easily but the part with the eye-bolt end that the linkage connects to will not. I can't see into the back side of the booster as the eye-bolt part goes into a large plastic looking cylinder..... help

or second question... should I even be looking at this stuff?? Since I'm going from power to non-power should I just get the adjustable rod from ma mopar?? If so, which one?? I hear that there are two different diameter rods. I have a caliper that will measure .001 inch but the sizes listed are in standard inch measurements, like 32/64 or 1 11/16 stuff like that. Anybody pass math for the conversion???

[amxauto-x]

32/64 th is actually 1/2 in or .500 ; 11/16 th is .6875.


Call you local Sears store or tool store and ask for a drill chart. That will give you the decimal equivalents. ie fraction and the decimal equivalent. Get a couple charts, one for the house and one for the garage. Maybe a couple extras for what ever reason you can think of. Keep one with your drills/drill motor. And one in your tool box. It can help to tell you which is bigger a 13/16 wrench or 27/32 wrench, for example.

If you get one with metric it will tell you the sizes compaired to fractions and decimals.

[amxauto-x]

oh ya, to get the decimal equivent to a fraction devide the top number by the bottom number ie.;;; 11/16 11 divided by 16 = .6875