Does anybody know of a source for the single piston half front wheel cylinder used on the early 60's F-250?
My 64 has a fracture on one.

 

I had those on my `63 and wasn't able to locally locate replacements or rebuild kits, so I converted to the 2 piston type. It seems to stop a lot better.

 

Hello Bobby,
Could you tell me what parts are needed to convert them to dual cylinders, it looks like the dual will bolt up in place of the old half cyl,
Thanks
Bill

 

Bill,
I don't recall the part number, in fact it was my local parts store that brought it to my attention. The only other thing I needed, besides the wheel cylinder was another little fork shaped push rod that goes between the piston and the shoe. As I recall, the parts guy wanted a production date on my truck because it showed two different types, the single-piston and the dual-piston. Fortunately for me the single piston was not available. He even had the fork-shaped thing.

 

Bobby,
Thanks for the info, I am going to look at this again and see what I would need to do this, near as I can tell, a cylinder from a F-100 will go in its place. Am going to check this out.

Thanks again
Bill

 

Hello again Bobby,

Do you have the name and telephone of the store that you purchased your parts?

I would like to contact them
Thanks
Bill

 

Ordered mine through johns f100. Spoke with a woman named Diana. Still haven't received them, though they knew exactly what the difference was and what I needed. They're on the web.

www.johnsf100.com

HTH.

Bob

 

Well, here is what I ended up doing.
I used the front cylinders for a 61-64 4X4, all one has to do is to drill one 5/16 hole in the brake mount plate. The old half cylinder mount holes are a diagonal pattern, where as the double holes are strait in line. now you can bolt on the dual cyl, then just buy two more link pins and it is ready to go. have good strong front brakes now. Then all I need to do now is to play around with the adjustable pressure valve to get the front and rear to grab even.
Now I am not at the mercy of looking all over for an obsolete part.