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Author: | Lunatic [ Wed Apr 29, 2015 7:35 pm ] |
Post subject: | How to: Big Brake Booster |
For those of you that are interested in installing a larger brake booster on your Fiero, this is for you. It's not that difficult to do, really. Follow along if you will. Note: Some use the 96 S10 booster for this mod. I used a 1995 Suburban booster because I had it. It's an 11" dual diaphragm design. It also has studs that make in easy to bolt the Fiero booster bracket to. Remove the old booster from the car. You can actually move the brake master out of the way, leaving the brake lines intact. You'll have to remove the little screw that holds the proportioning valve in place. Once this is done, unhook the booster pushrod from the brake pedal, remove the four bolts from the booster, and place it on the bench. We need some parts from the stock Fiero booster. Note the pushrod length, this is important. This is the bajonet fitting. You'll see there are a few places that are staked. These need to be unstaked. Using a screw driver makes this easy. Here is what it looks like unstaked. Do this on all the area's needing it. Place the booster in a vice as shown. We're going to rotate the housing. It does have a spring in there and it will fly apart. Prepare yourself and get a helper to hold down the top of the booster while you rotate. Disassembled, this is how it looks. In this photo, you'll need to remove this lock clip. Exploded view. Look way down and you'll see a circlip. Remove this. Pull out the pushrod like shown. This is what you need. Now, cut the bracket off the Fiero booster. We'll reuse this on the new booster. This is the bigger 11" booster. Like you did with the Fiero booster, take the new one apart the same way. You can see the different length pushrods between the two. The Fiero pushrod is the longer of the two. This is what we'll be using in the bigger booster. Circlip, pushrod and seal. Insert pushrod into bore of new booster. Circlip sitting on top, ready to be installed. Circlip properly seated. Retainer, spring and seal goes on. At the top, you can seal the simple lock ring. Turn the booster around and install the plastic guide. Next the spring retainer goes on. Now the spring. The front of the booster now gets installed. Compress the spring, and rotate slightly to lock in position. The studs are too long in my opinion. Cut them to aid in the installation. The stock Fiero plastic sleeve, on the right, is reused. Use new nuts with the Nylock insert. Bolt the Fiero bracket that you cut off earlier. I painted mine to match. You will have to clearance for the bigger booster. Several judicious blows of a hammer in the offending area take care of this. Add some paint. Install the newly modified 11" booster. Reattach the master cylinder and enjoy! See, easy. |
Author: | andrew88 [ Fri May 01, 2015 11:05 pm ] |
Post subject: | Re: How to: Big Brake Booster |
Wow, nice write up and work |
Author: | OHNIKO [ Wed May 06, 2015 2:04 pm ] |
Post subject: | Re: How to: Big Brake Booster |
andrew88 wrote: Wow, nice write up and work ditto & thanks! |
Author: | Lunatic [ Thu May 07, 2015 5:43 am ] |
Post subject: | Re: How to: Big Brake Booster |
If someone wants to do this mod, I have two spare push rods and brackets if needed. Free, come and get 'em. But you'll need to get a new circlip. |
Author: | OHNIKO [ Fri May 08, 2015 3:03 pm ] |
Post subject: | Re: How to: Big Brake Booster |
the one question I've always had & always got different answers is can you either upgrade to the s10 master cylinder or do the bigger booster upgrade... or both?... is it redundant to do both? ok just to do one? if so which one? hmmm... |
Author: | Lunatic [ Fri May 08, 2015 10:37 pm ] |
Post subject: | Re: How to: Big Brake Booster |
OHNIKO wrote: the one question I've always had & always got different answers is can you either upgrade to the s10 master cylinder or do the bigger booster upgrade... or both?... is it redundant to do both? ok just to do one? if so which one? hmmm... If you have stock Fiero calipers, keep the stock Fiero master and install the bigger booster. If you have "slightly" bigger calipers (Grand Am, etc), stick with the OE Fiero master. However, if using S10 calipers, then the S10 master would be a suitable choice. The plungers in the S10/Blazer M/C are larger than the stock Fiero units. This means they are going to move more fluid with the same pedal travel vs. the smaller plungers in the Fiero M/C. However, because they are larger, this means less pressure will be exerted on the brake fluid vs. the smaller plungers in the stock Fiero M/C with the same pedal effort. This of course assuming you are using the same diameter of the caliper pistons in the comparison. This is simple hydraulic theory. Think of it as pounds per square inch. If you have a 1 sq/in piston with 10 lbs of pressure pushing it, you have 10 lbs per square inch. If it's a 2 sq/in piston with 10 lbs pushing it, you now have 5lbs per square inch. Brakes don't work by amout of fluid but more on the clamping pressure applied. So with the larger M/C you have less travel but it requires more pressure to achieve the same clamping pressure at the brake pads than if you had the Fiero M/C. |
Author: | OHNIKO [ Sun May 31, 2015 2:58 pm ] |
Post subject: | Re: How to: Big Brake Booster |
1995 Suburban booster where best place to get these? scrap yard ones ok I gather if they're in ok condition? |
Author: | Lunatic [ Wed Jun 24, 2015 5:04 am ] |
Post subject: | Re: How to: Big Brake Booster |
OHNIKO wrote: 1995 Suburban booster where best place to get these? scrap yard ones ok I gather if they're in ok condition? The S10 brake booster should be cheaper as they're more common. Although I had a couple of 11" GM booster's in the garage, I used the Suburban one. It was the cleanest of the bunch. The thing with the S10, Suburban, etc is that they come with studs on the back side already in place. While you could essentially use any 11" GM booster, it's these studs (S10, etc) that make mounting of the Fiero bracket easy. I would've drilled and bolted the bracket on had these studs not been there. Too many people are scared of this and thus decline this easy mod. New booster is the way to go and they're only around $100. You'll have to shop around as I get my parts at cost. Salvage yard units are okay but try find the nicest one though. |
Author: | OHNIKO [ Tue Jun 30, 2015 4:08 pm ] |
Post subject: | Re: How to: Big Brake Booster |
so you can get them at cost? I need 2 |
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