I would make the pedal rod out of atleast a grade 8 bolt. Point being that the rod you installed should not have bend or broken. A grade 8 bolt 3/8 or 7/16 in diam is pretty hard to bend or break, Seems to me the rod was made out of some cheap pot metal
Well, I went to an industrial repair shop, and they used a grade 11 bolt (I had never heard of anything higher than grade 8 before, so I have my doubts if they were yanking my chain or not), but the repair worked for the trip yesterday (i'll post those pics up later on). I used the old booster because I need to figure a couple of things on the new one before I go ahead and install the 95.5 one (the dual diaphragm one). First one, is actually finding the plastic vacuum connector, as the old one uses an odd one.
As i mentioned before, it seems like the one I had on (he one that broke) has the pushrod that connects to the master that is not the propper one (seems to me like it's too long compared to the 95.5 one), and this makes sense. The way I figured, I only use the first couple of inches of travel of the brake pedal, the rest just serve to break the pushrod I already broke, and this could be why the booster is not boosting (the pedal is not going deep enough for it to boost). Anyway, I'll see for sure once I install the 95.5 booster...
