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Master Cylinders 101

Last week we looked into the use and value of brake proportioning valves. A small device attaches to your master cylinder and runs through to the rear brakes. This week we’ll look at the all-vital master cylinder and its importance for your vehicle. Here at Pirate Jack Hot Rod Restoration, we focus on delivering high-quality products [...]

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Proportioning Valves 101

When it comes to your car’s braking system, several components come into play. Here at Pirate Jack Hot Rod Restoration, we offer quality replacement auto parts for your old-school hotrod. We strive to bring you all of the tools and equipment needed to optimize performance vehicles. One such product we sell is the brake proportional [...]

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The Physics Behind Braking

Like so many systems we use on a daily basis, we trust our brakes to work without thinking about why they do. However, the physics of braking a vehicle tells us something very important about what kinds of brakes we need and why. We’ve mentioned you need to ditch the drum brakes with one of [...]

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Mopar A Body Disc Brake Conversions: Power vs. Standard

We know when it comes to your 1960s-1970s Mopar® restoration, you want everything to be perfect, but you don’t want to spend years finding the right parts for every single job. At Pirate Jack, we make your brake conversions easy, so you have a car braking system you can count on to perform when you [...]

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A History of Automotive Brakes

Braking Systems: An Evolution Story Early Days Where there’s a wheel, there’s a way to stop it. This has proven to be true for more than two centuries, when a horse stopping wasn’t enough to stop the carriage behind it. These early braking systems (dating to the early 1800s and possibly before) consisted of a wooden block [...]

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It’s Time to Ditch the Drum Brakes

Since the 1960s, the automotive industry has been hard at work trying to find new and more efficient options for braking systems. They began with drum brakes, which were a vast improvement over the existing system. As a result, drum brakes were found in virtually every vehicle until the late 1970s, when manufacturers began to [...]

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What to Expect in Your Pirate Jack Brake Booster Kit

Now that you know what brake booster are, how to know when it's time to replace them, and whether you should do the replacement yourself, let's take a look at the brake booster kits from Pirate Jack and everything that comes inside them. We'll take a look at this 1966-1970 B Body O.E.M. Style Disc Brake Kit & Booster [...]

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Signs You Need to Repair or Replace Your Brake Boosters

Brake boosters are one of those vital parts of the braking system; if the booster goes, so does the entire braking system of your vehicle. The brake booster helps you press on the brakes hard enough to bring the thousands of pounds of your vehicle to a stop, so it's pretty important. Eventually, many brake [...]

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Should You Replace Your Brake Booster Yourself?

In a recent blog post, we explained what a brake booster is and why you might want to consider replacing it on your muscle car. In this post, we'll discuss whether you should consider replacing your brake booster yourself or if it's worth paying a professional to do the work for you. First, consider that the brake [...]

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The Scoop on Brake Boosters for Your Muscle Car

If you are new to the muscle car world, you may have read about brake boosters and wondered what they are and whether or not they would be a good thing for your muscle car. Brake boosters are essentially something that makes it easier for you to push on the brakes. Without them, you'd have to [...]

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