What a week. The brake lines were still being a nightmare so I ended up ditching the rear hard lines and brass tee and threw on some braided lines with a -3 tee. The rear brakes were finally not leaking.
Had to replace the master because it was also leaking. Got that in and bled the brakes and proceeded to drive around the yard where everything felt good, and just as I was finally ready for the neighborhood road test drive, the pedal went to the floor. Everything looked fine so I pulled the master off the booster and the pushrod extension was gone. It broke off the end of the booster pushrod when it fell out. So now I had to replace the booster and make a new pushrod extension :mad:
After spending way more on the brake system than I'd like to admit, I finally have a truck that moves and stops on its own. The brakes feel good so far, but still need to be broken in along with other things. Got the trans to shift through the gears and got the truck up to about 40 with no issues so far. Time to start to plan a tune session on the dyno.
Broken pushrod in the Tundra booster
This is how I pulled out the extension. The tip of the stock pushrod barely stuck in the end of the extension which caused the extension to kind of "buckle" when the pedal was pushed which caused it to get wedged sideways, which in essence sheared the end of the pushrod off and they fell into the booster. Very glad this happened in my backyard.
New extension I made up. The sleeve captures all of the booster pushrod which prevents things from wanting to get pushed sideways and bound up. The pedal now feels just like it should with no chance of the extension falling off again
New brake lines. Zipties are temporary and everything will be better mounted soon.
