Who's running with a vacuum canister to the pwr brk booster ?

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Here is my Summit aluminum vacuum canister squeezed in up front. The source line comes off the belt driven vacuum pump
 
Thanks 565bbc, I see that. I looked at a hook up diagram on a site last night that showed the hook up
Vac source to check valve of canister, output of canister to check valve input on brake booster housing.
So yours would be the same configuration. Not rocket science but just confusing enough to hook it up wrong
if not careful.

Why is there a brake booster specific hose ? As long as the seal is tight why would it mater ?
 
Why is there a brake booster specific hose ? As long as the seal is tight why would it mater ?
Are you talking about the factory pre bent steel one with a rubber hose on the booster end?
 
The rubber hose. I see the factory replacement is rubber and prebent.
but when running the canister as we are doing requires non OEM hose.
But in the links I've seen they all said to make sure to use Brake booster specific hose.
I looked on line and found Oreily's auto parts carrys this is 36" lengths but does not say how
big the ID is. I have marine grade teflon fuel line currently being used as a vacuum supply.
This is what was on the old setup I'm redoing. Brakes worked fine but a stiff pedal almost all the time.
 
I am running 8 AN braided line on my set up but as long as the hose you use has reinforcement so it will not collapse under vacuum you should be fine, I believe 3/8" ID would be the standard size to use and if your set up has a metal line going to the intake you can just cut it down and re-flare it for use with your aftermarket hose.
 
Metal line long gone. All hose from manifold to booster
 
Metal line long gone. All hose from manifold to booster
So if the hose you are currently using works fine then you just need a longer piece to go from the manifold to the canister check valve and then a piece to go from the canister back to the booster check valve.
If you mounted the canister near the front of the fender I would measure and get a rough estimate of how long each line has to be depending on how you route them and then just get one long piece of hose maybe a foot longer than your measurement just to be safe.
 
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Thats what I'm doing currently. I should be able to have it done by the weekend (no time during the week)
 
Reporting back on the brake vacuum canister I installed. For the time I drove before getting ready for the paint job to start
It seemed to work very good. The first application of the brakes is always the best. If you just hold it with constant
pressure and do not pump the brakes it works fine. I would say about a 20 to 30 % improvement over what I had.
 
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