1971 Mercury Comet 4door : Power Brakes

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  1. cis1711

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    Firstly, I want to thank user CA189HJN for selling and shipping me every part I needed to attempt and succeed at this modification.

    It has been done before, but here are my anecdotes, regardless. If they help anyone here I am happy to elaborate further, just shoot me a message.

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    Above is what I consider to be the finished product of months of effort and research. I am going to post this and edit it as I develop the thread.

    The previous owner of my car had installed the ‘masterpowerbrakes’ front disc brake upgrade. I was happy to buy the car from him knowing this mod had already been done. A week after buying it from him and I noticed at every stop light my pedal would slowly go to the floor, despite having no external leaks. I contacted MPB and they shipped me a new master cylinder. Problem solved!
    Only after owning the car for a year after that did I consider power brakes over the current manual configuration, and it took yet another year to complete this power brake phase; one month for the install, 11 months for research and parts!

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    This is my firewall unmodified. ^


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    This is my firewall modified. ^
     
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