14 bolt brake conversion

[saxon]

Use all the GM stuff, you need nothing off of the jeep. I swapped the cables so that they were on the passenger side. I am now working on getting my jeep brake handle mechanism to activate the new 14 bolt emer brakes. So far I have used a 75 ish chev monza clutch cable to jog around the transfer case, now it's just a matter of splicing the two together. I made a stand off bracket off the bolts that hold the front spring perch of the pass rear spring pack.(I have bolts now because of spring over) That bracket holds up the cable ends where the emer. brake cables meet. That's the stable end where it pulls from.

[MILRET45]

The additional problem that I'm seeing using the GM wheel cylinder is that it has a centered brake line connection rather than the 45 degree, or thereabouts, offset of the brake line connection on the 715 wheel cylinder. The GM wheel cylinder, at least the one from my 14 bolt donor, also appear to have a smaller diameter threaded fitting.

My 14 bolt junker was a non-floating axle and I'm not sure what truck it was originally under. Are there some GM wheel cylinders with the offset line fitting?

[gonz]

I do know people got it work because I talked to a couple on the old old site about it. I put all this together and then I bought my newer truck so I never hooked up the lines. I would take the wheel cylinder and the brake line to napa and see what you can find to angle and fit. That was my plan- gonz

[MILRET45]

Since I already have the new Ford wheel cylinders that fit the M715 backing plates and have all the GM parts unassembled I believe I'm gonna take the cut-off wheel to the GM backing plates and remove the two bent out tabs that interferre with the Ford rubber boots. A friend and I agree that the tabs probably were designed in to provide some element of support to the GM push rods on the wheel cylinder since they have a boot that's flush with the end of the cylinder casting. The Ford style has the rubber boot that extends outward from the end of the cylinder casting and provides the same support. At least that's our story and we're sticking to it...