'62 Lark Daytona power brake hose routing?

[jjarvis0223]

I am in the process of installing power brakes (off a parts car) on my '62 Lark Daytona. Does anyone know the correct routing for the vacuum hose that goes between the "Vacuum reserve tank" (that's under the drivers front fender) to the "power brake booster"?

Joseph Jarvis

[Dick Steinkamp]

quote:Originally posted by jjarvis0223
...the "Vacuum reserve tank"...

That's a new one on me. Anybody seen one of these?



Dick Steinkamp
Bellingham, WA

[r1lark]

quote:Originally posted by Dick Steinkamp

quote:Originally posted by jjarvis0223
...the "Vacuum reserve tank"...

That's a new one on me. Anybody seen one of these?

Dick Steinkamp
Bellingham, WA

Yep, I've seen them......and also on '61 Larks.

Can't remember the hose routing, tho......

Paul
Winston-Salem, NC
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[ROADRACELARK]

I have one of those "reserve" tanks on the car pictured below. It might come in handy if the hamster in the spinning wheel croaked. Because the 63-66 models did not use the booster that required the tank, I wasn't sure where the factory routed the hose, but I ran it up and out from under the rubber splash shield at the top-rear of the inner fender panel. It looked like it should belong there, then continued across behind the booster and over to the intake manifold fitting. Hope this helps.

Dan Miller
Atlanta, GA

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[Jeff_H]

The booster setup on my '53 came from a '62 lark. I pulled the unit myself. The vacuum hose went straight from the booster to the intake manifold fitting on the V8. I do think there were 2 types of boosters used for '62 larks though so maybe I got the "other" one [?]

Jeff in ND

'53 Champion Hardtop

[Skinnys Garage]

You got me curious, so I checked my V8 '62 Cruiser and it too runs directly to the manifold. Any clues on why they would run a reserve tank on some and not others? Maybe 6 vs V8?


Skinny
Watertown, SD

[ROADRACELARK]

There's a good chance that Joseph's parts car is in fact a 61 Lark, that being the first year for suspended brake/clutch pedals. That's what my booster/tank arrangement came off of. Bolted right on, no mods nessessary. The vacuum fitting on the booster is a "T"...one side to the intake, the other to the reservoir. It's worked flawlessly for me under some obviously extreem conditions.[}]
Hope this helps.

Dan Miller
Auburn, GA

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[jjarvis0223]

The parts car that we took the power brakes system off of was a '62. (The ID tag confirms)It was also a V8 car (259). I didn't take specific pictures of the hose routing but I remember that there were (are) two hoses coming from the brake booster. One goes to the reserve tank and the other goes to the vacuum source on the manifold. It sounds like Jeff's system might be slightly different from mine.



Joseph Jarvis

[ROADRACELARK]

Studebaker, sometimes, would carry over a particular part from a previous model year. A portion of the first "run" may have used the left over systems still in the assembly line stock. The lower set of numbers on the body tag, under the hood, on top of the cowl, passenger side, would verify if it were in fact an "early" car. Otherwise, the booster/master cylinder assembly was changed somewhere along the car's life span. Hope this helps.

Dan Miller
Auburn, GA

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