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Old 03-09-2003, 10:40 AM   #1
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Question vacuum power disc brakes

I have a 79 Sovereign that originally had vacuum power disc brakes, now has electric. The box behind the tanks is still there, it occurs to me that this might be a goood place to build a box for my little honda generator. Can I just cut those brake lines and remove that mechanizm, or will that lock the brakes?
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Old 03-09-2003, 01:08 PM   #2
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I saw a '78 Overlander that had been converted from vac/hydraulic to electric brakes and the guy pulled the booster out of the metal box it sits in and just crimped the hydraulic line 1" out from the trailer with a pair of pliers. The trailer, of course, had been fitted with drums and magnets,
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