Anyone run a hydro boost brake system?

Oh I also forgot to mention, the reason I went to the 05 F250 setup is the much larger master cylinder and mainly the flat hydroboost mounting plate. I was using a hydroboost from an 03 Chevy 2500 express van but it had an angle and required a wedge shaped spacer, when it started leaking I started looking for a different setup and got the F250 booster with around 10K miles for cheap.
 
My neighbor put a 91 ford superduty hydraboost system on his 92 ford cummins conversion 3/4ton and said his brakes system doubled in stoppin ability
 
I got a 06 F250 hydrobooster master cylinder combo yesterday for $100 at a local junkyard. Fabbing up a new mounting plate for it today. The total rod length from firewall is about 1/2" longer than the old one. Just gonna make a new plate that is half inch thicker to offset the difference and it will be good. Will get the hoses made in the next few days will let you know how it turns out.
 
Mounting plate was easy compared to finding someone to make automotive type inverted flared pressure hoses for the system. Been to 5 hose shops and all have some reason for not being able to make them.
 
you might look for adapters that go from inverted flare to jic/an, I have used them on occasion. I either use earls or aeroquip.
 
thats what I did, Summit racing has them.

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Lance said:
thats what I did, Summit racing has them.

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Found just enough of your couplings to make this work. All that is left now is the brake lines that will not work as is. All hydrolic lines are good!
 
System is done. Truck will hold 20LBS of boost with cold tires on the street. Hardest part was finding lines and fittings to get it to work. Assembly, priming and bleeding time was no more than 1.5 hours.

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