Brake Booster rebuild kit for 72 Challenger • The Dodge Challenger Message Board

by **Danny Joe** » 05 Oct 2009 4:59

I need help finding a supplier for this kit. If you can help I would be grateful.

by **fal308** » 05 Oct 2009 14:15

Without knowing anything about your car, I used the 318 for a lookup. None of these are kits per se though.
Rock Auto has http://www.rockauto.com/catalog/raframecatalog.php
Pentastar Parts http://www.pentastarparts.com.au/sunsho ... list&c=153
Layson's http://www.laysons.com/CatalogMenu.cfm?nCatID=1843
or pick up a copy of Mopar Collectors Guide. It is full of ads for parts and services for various Mopars

by **burdar** » 05 Oct 2009 14:18

Just send your booster out to this guy for a rebuild and replate.

http://boosterdeweyexchange.com/

by **Danny Joe** » 05 Oct 2009 19:10

Thank you all for your help. I have a 72 challenger with a 318 . It has been sitting in garage for 15 years. It has been bored .30 over , hotter cam and headers and 4 barrel. If you hear of any one who has a kit let me know. Thank you again

by **fal308** » 05 Oct 2009 19:16

Was looking through a copy of MCG for something else and saw an ad for a guy that does brakes only (brackets, boosters, masters, calipers, conversions) http://www.theramman.com/ Don't know anything about him though

by **Jon** » 06 Oct 2009 2:46

Good Topic, I want to look at a booster seal upgrade also, anyone done one lately?

Thread-jacking a bit here, how would you all go about refurbishing front calipers? Is there a special honing stone set-up, or would it just be better to get a rebuilt.

P.S. If that's the same Pentastar guy I dealt with, :s001:

by **christer** » 11 Oct 2009 15:55

burdar wrote:Just send your booster out to this guy for a rebuild and replate.

http://boosterdeweyexchange.com/

Only $105 for a rebuild. That is cheap, I think. I wonder if the quality of the job is OK?

by **christer** » 11 Oct 2009 16:05

Jon wrote:Good Topic, I want to look at a booster seal upgrade also, anyone done one lately?

No, but I also find this topic intresting. I wonder what has happened to all the NOS Brake booster repair kits? Have they been bought by the pro´s (restorers) a long time ago? I have hardly ever seen a brake booster repair kit for sale and I find this fact it a bit odd. Maybe very few NOS repair kits were manufactured from the beginning because they thought that this would be one of the last parts on the car that would brake...Just a theory..

by **wayne brown** » 01 Nov 2009 14:52

booster rebuilds are not expensive
i only know 1 person successful with a bendix rebiuld
people won t sell the parts

wayne.. ..the ram man
the mopar brake answer man
817 691 5996
a full service mopar brake rebuilder

by **Goldenblack440** » 02 Nov 2009 10:38

Jon wrote:Good Topic, I want to look at a booster seal upgrade also, anyone done one lately?

Thread-jacking a bit here, how would you all go about refurbishing front calipers? Is there a special honing stone set-up, or would it just be better to get a rebuilt.

P.S. If that's the same Pentastar guy I dealt with,

We have a great mail order place in Australia, you send them your brake parts and they fix them or give advice on what to do, then send them back. There should be plenty of places like that over there, for eg what Burdar recommended, or The Ram Man. As for the Pentastar Parts place - that is in Australia, so it must be a different place? In any case, i try not to deal with them either! ( a few bad stories).

if originality isn't important, I used an new alloy replacement direct bolt on affair. Off ebay for about $100. Body is made in US, plastic reservoir with twin caps made in you know where.

by **ianandjess** » 03 Nov 2009 12:25

hey steve who do you send your brake parts to ive just used local guys down here theyre not familiar with yanky stuff but the manage
i also try to avoid pentastar parts theyre just to damn pricey & i dont like to use hemi performance either but some times there the only guys with what you need
cheers ian

by **burdar** » 16 Jan 2010 16:43

I just got my Midland Ross(banded style) back from Booster Dewey. They did a great job and had a very fast turn around time.

by **Jon** » 17 Jan 2010 4:20

Looks Purdy nice! :wink:

Dumb question here, as usual. Why is the large drum needed on a brake booster.

by **dave-r** » 17 Jan 2010 10:33

The bigger the diameter the more effective it is.