Was hydroboost an option on Ford trucks?

I see my F-Superduty has it, but my F350 doesn't have it. I believe this was an option for other manufactures as I've had a few GM trucks with it.

 

Only superduties, it's a direct and easy swap though if you can get your hands on a super duty for parts.

 

Some good reading in this thread from another forum: Brake hydroBoost Upgrade walk throught - Ford Bronco Forum

 

the hydro-boost brake assist was only offered on the 87 to 97 F-SuperDuty trucks, no other pre 97 trucks got it.
it is also standard equipment on the 99 and newer diesel super duty pickups.

 

Good post but you should NOT use Prestone or any other brand of generic power steering fluid in your hydraulic system whether you have hydroboost or not. The factory fill is I think Type F auto trans oil. I like to run Mercon instead.

Also a few thoughts from me since I've done the swap on my F-150:

If you buy a reman hydraulic unit it does NOT come with the pushrod, spring, or retainer that go between the booster and the master cylinder. You'll have to either buy aftermarket from the likes of Talon Hydraulics or find used ones from an F-Super Duty truck. I wasn't fixin' to pay the prices that Talon was asking and I couldn't find an F-SD truck with hydroboost in my local yard so I made up my own pushrod out of two shorter ones by welding them together and cutting to the appropriate length. Reason I didn't just use round bar stock to make one from scratch was that it has a groove machined in one end to grab the retainer. Since I don't have a lathe I wasn't gonna try to make that groove by hand in raw stock!

If your pump is at all worn out and whiney, it will whine constantly after you add the hydroboost. Mine sounds like a supercharger now. Lol. I've put a seal kit in it but that never did solve the whine.

I am not sure about the 3/4 ton+ trucks but the F-150 master cylinder does NOT fit the hydrobooster in stock form. I had to slot out the mounting holes to get it to fit onto the booster studs. I would not recommend using a F-SD MC because that truck will have disc brakes all around and it's MC will be set up for rear discs. Trying to get it to work with dumb-dumb drums would probably become a headache.

You will have to either slot the firewall mounting holes or buy the correct hydroboost-compatible brake pedal assembly to get the pedal pushrod to travel in a straight line.

 

Thanks everyone for the good information. I am going to start sourcing the needed parts to do this mod.

 

I bought all my stuff at <a href=http://www.rockauto.com>RockAuto</a href>. Just search for a 96 F-SuperDuty.

Just source the pushrod, retainer, and spring from a j/y.