//////////Has anyone found a newer brake booster that can be used on a 62 or newer Lark? I was thinking of putting a brake booster on the 61, I would just need the brackets and things from a 62 or 63 Lark and a booster that would fit. I have installed the dual circuit Chevy Nova 1970 type master cylinder./////////// ----------- I used a brake booster from a '61 Chebby Biscayne wagon that is very similar to the Stude booster except that the booster/bracket are a riveted assembly. I beleive that some F*rd boosters of the era are also similar and would work. Be aware that the firewall on a pre 1962 Stude is very flimsy... ---------------- /////////That is why I was looking for the brackets to mount to the firewall. I think there are some newer units that would bolt to the later Studebaker brackets that I could mount my master cylinder to. The MC I have is for a 1970 Nova with or without PB. The fire wall isn't flexing that I can see with someone else stepping on the brake while I watch from the engine compartment. I guess that I am so used to power assist that I wish to put it on the Lark.//////// ----------- Believe me... Any pre 1962 Lark adapted for suspended pedals will see firewall flex. Best example is T-Cab trucks which end up with cracked firewalls and dashes. I've experienced both. Even on later models, the firewalls still flex and is a major reason that brakes are not nearly as positive as on a frame mounted master cylinder. After welding up the firewall on my T-Cab, I fabricated a doubler and still installed power brakes... ---------- The '61 Lark also has suspended pedals. The last year for the thru-the-floor brake pedal should have been '60. -------------- The force your firewall sees is that exerted by something outside the system. (This is assuming that you have a firewall mounted system.) If you push on the brake pedal so that a 50# force is exerted on the rod into the brake cylinder with a non-power system, then add a master system, you will have to exert less presssure on the pedal. The rest of ther 50# force will be developed within the booster shell, so the force on the firewall is less. If you change from a uder-floor ssytem by adding a nooster on the forewall, that's a different ballgame. ------- /////////I do not have an under-the -floor MC. The MC is mounted on the firewall. I would like to put a brake booster on it because I am spoiled from driving cars with power brakes. The brackets for the late 62 and 63 and possibly 64(all the same part number) should work so that I can mount a newer booster to the Lark. Someone on the newsgroup used a newer booster on an Avanti(?) so I was thinking that I might be able to find one that would work nicely using the later Studebaker mounting brackets.///////// ----------- Right. All you hafta do is find a booster assy that will fit. Like I said earlier, I used one from a '61 or 62 Biscayne station wagon which is almost a dead ringer for the Stude unit but is a riveted rather than a bolted assembly (booster to bracket). Too have really good brakes on a suspended Stude setup, power brakes are virtually mandatory. However, frame mounted manual brakes are also fine. --------------- Chuck Collins at the Grand Canyon chapter site has a detailed discription of changing a '62 over to a dual master cylinder. I have a '61 and wish to change it to a dual with a power booster. Anyone that has done this, I really need any info you can give me..........Thanks KM -------- Chuck Collins at the Grand Canyon chapter site has a detailed discription of changing a '62 over to a dual master cylinder. I have a '61 and wish to change it to a dual with a power booster. Anyone that has done this, I really need any info you can give me..........Thanks KM -------- I gotta agree with you here JT, the brakes on the '63 Champ and the '62 Daytona take a pretty good stomp to work, and the '60, with the supposedly inferior brakes, but the frame mounted MC was much more positive and required much less pedal effort. I'm going to go see if I can find any '61 Biscayne boosters anywhere now! Ron/Champ 6 -------- There is a later Ford booster that is also similar and also has a bolt on bracket which makes swapping boosters (for rebuilding) a snap. Remind me again toward the end of next week and I'll be able to get some additional info from someone up the road a bit.. JT ---