1Bad454 Posted September 2, 2020 Share Posted September 2, 2020 Hey guys do they make rebuild kits for the proportioning valve? I'm not sure if mine works and I'd hate to get my car completed and then have to replace it.. I looked at the aftermarket pieces but they look different from the factory original. If possible I'd like to clean mine up and restore it. Pro's and con's would be appreciated. Thank you! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John S Posted September 2, 2020 Share Posted September 2, 2020 I tried replacing mine with one from Inline Tube. It did not work the brake light was on all the time and the machining was bad. I cleaned my old on to the best of my ability and it works. I tested it by loosening a bleed screw and hit the brakes hard to simulate a line break and the brake light came on. I used a coat hanger and put it in where the rear brake line attached and pushed it in and let the spring pressure push back.It moved freely I re-installed and has worked fine. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1Bad454 Posted September 8, 2020 Author Share Posted September 8, 2020 Thanks for the input. I cleaned mine up as well. Take a look. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sbarnette Posted September 10, 2020 Share Posted September 10, 2020 Looks great. What did you use to clean it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1Bad454 Posted September 11, 2020 Author Share Posted September 11, 2020 17 hours ago, sbarnette said: Looks great. What did you use to clean it? I used Berryman carb cleaner to get all of the gunk off. Then I used Rust-oleum rust dissolver to get it to bare metal. I then painted it with Duplicolor hi temp engine cast iron color paint. I also taped the nut and sending unit fitting off and painted them with Duplicolor caliper stainless steel paint. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lou Posted September 21, 2020 Share Posted September 21, 2020 Beautiful job! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1Bad454 Posted September 22, 2020 Author Share Posted September 22, 2020 Thank you sir! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
madmatt9471 Posted September 22 Share Posted September 22 On 9/2/2020 at 7:14 AM, John S said: I tried replacing mine with one from Inline Tube. It did not work the brake light was on all the time and the machining was bad. I cleaned my old on to the best of my ability and it works. I tested it by loosening a bleed screw and hit the brakes hard to simulate a line break and the brake light came on. I used a coat hanger and put it in where the rear brake line attached and pushed it in and let the spring pressure push back.It moved freely I re-installed and has worked fine. I know that this is old, however your information about what you said here: "I used a coat hanger and put it in where the rear brake line attached and pushed it in and let the spring pressure push back.It moved freely I re-installed and has worked fine." This single handedly made my difficult task a success. The only extra things that I had to do was purchase another set of shorter brake line wrenches (headers in the way) and heat the 52 year old rear 9/16 nut in order to loosen it. I also had earlier purchased the tool to stop the valve from locking out the rear brakes again. Lol Thank you very much for that phenomenal suggestion to re-center the proportioning valve for the rear!!! Thanks, Matt 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Whons Posted October 2 Share Posted October 2 I put a new one in and everything works fine. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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