83Stepper
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- Joined
- Mar 9, 2025
- Posts
- 5
- Reaction score
- 5
- Location
- Massachusetts
- First Name
- Chad
- Truck Year
- 1983
- Truck Model
- C10
- Engine Size
- 350
So a little back info on what I've got. 83 Stepside that was originally a 4.1 I6 3 on the tree. PO swapped the 4.1 for a mild build 350 sbc and moved the column shifter to the floor. Appears that the PO, or one of them, had intentions of hot rodding it and did some funky stuff. Won't get into all the details but yeah it's been a process just to make it a daily again.
TL/DR; doing the brakes and appears that the master cylinder is toast. Pedal is fine to about 3/4 then gets really hard to depress and can't bleed the rear brakes. So I'm leaning towards the master is done for. Believe it's a JB1 system with manual brakes and 11" rear shoes, no RPO on the glovebox door. Casting number on the master is 18006812. Rough measurement of the bore without tearing into it appears to be approx 1 3/16", 30mm-ish.
Trying to at least find a rebuild kit, but no luck so far online. Swear these things are non-existent or I've got a Unicorn. Canadian built truck if that helps any. Not seeing any signs that this was a power unit that had the old vacuum booster removed. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
TL/DR; doing the brakes and appears that the master cylinder is toast. Pedal is fine to about 3/4 then gets really hard to depress and can't bleed the rear brakes. So I'm leaning towards the master is done for. Believe it's a JB1 system with manual brakes and 11" rear shoes, no RPO on the glovebox door. Casting number on the master is 18006812. Rough measurement of the bore without tearing into it appears to be approx 1 3/16", 30mm-ish.
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.Trying to at least find a rebuild kit, but no luck so far online. Swear these things are non-existent or I've got a Unicorn. Canadian built truck if that helps any. Not seeing any signs that this was a power unit that had the old vacuum booster removed. Any help would be greatly appreciated.