After reading the forums here, i decided to undertake the ABS to conventional brake swap. removed the "abortion" and installed a used junkyard booster from a 92 cougar (clean with no rust) & a new master from the 93 crown victoria. Plumped all the brake lines as instructed on the forum & ran vacume hose from the largest vacume line behind the plenum. Bled about a gallon of fluid through the brakes till i am sure there is no air. Replaced the booster push rod for a longer one & adjusted to 1/16" clearance between the push rod & m/c bore plug. So basically I think I did everything right. So I start up the car & watched the pedal get sucked down about 2-2.5" (to the floor) and was hard as a brick. Soon as i shut the car off I hear a slight "wooshing" sound and watch the pedal return to it's upright position. Otherwise the booster make no noise at all. When I tried to drive the car it acted like the brakes were dragging reguardless of the adjustments to the push rod. I checked that i had good vacume, checked the one way valve (all good). So I am wondering what I did wrong, just bought a bad booster ? or do I need to bleed more or something ? Do I have too much vacume going to the booster ? I am at a stand still & would appreciate any advice.
-Big Bad Boonze
-Big Bad Boonze