Hello all,

This is another long post that I thought deserved its own thread as it's more searchable and may help someone. This is for my 1968 XL with factory disc brakes. I have previously rebuilt a correct Midland Ross booster for this car and replaced the "whatever" one was cobbled in there.

It just turns out this braking system was just so bad in so many ways, the incorrect and failed booster was just the tip of the iceberg.

Now even after I rectified the booster problem I did have a decent pedal, but the brakes were really touchy and you could just tell the rears were not doing anything. Then the rears started to work the tiniest bit. Now when we bought the car the master looked recent and so did the rear wheel cylinders so naturally I assumed they just didn't get it bled properly. Well that was probably part of it, a small part of it.

Here's the train wreck, enjoy.

So at first glance the fronts do not look to bad, there's plenty of pad left, but there is a noticeable lip on both sides of the rotor and both rotors look the same.

Other side.

The problem here is that there's little extra meat on the rotor to begin with when they were new. Both front rotors are nearly 0.2" under limit. That's quite a bit! These are junk.

Now I did replace the shoes, springs, adjusters, etc a while back and had the drums machined down. The wheel cylinders look very recent and very clean on the outside.

However there's 2500 miles most town driving on these rear brakes and that's all the dust in them. And probably most of that was because I was a retard and forgot I had the parking brake on for about 1000 feet. Hence I installed the warning light option for this car.

I just naturally assumed it all would be bad and this car never seems to disappoint when it comes to that. I stripped all the brakes off all 4 wheels.

Let us assess the damage.

Ummmmm, that looks like chunky toxic soup. The brakes lines over the axle were just as packed.

Well at least both sides are equally bad.

The caliper interior is all pitted scaled chunky rusty iron.