More Powerful Brakes From F250 or F350

[boysurfer1997]

I’ve got a 1997 5.4L with 35” tires and lots of other offroad stuff making this a very heavy vehicle. Has anybody put the braking system from a bigger truck made for towing heavy loads on here? I’m thinking if you had a brake booster and master cylinder from an F250/350 it would push the calipers a little harder and stop the vehicle faster.

Has anyone done this before?

 

[ExplorerTom]

I’d start with changing out the pads. Running ceramic pads will yield horrible cold bite and bad braking until you get some heat in them.

A good pad like Hawk LTS has great cold bite and good heat resistance.

 

[boysurfer1997]

Thanks for the advice ExplorerTom! I've already got semi-metallic pads on it and in my experience this has given me better bite than ceramic pads. At the moment I think I have a bad ABS pump so i was just curious about putting a stronger system in while im doing that job anyways.

 

[Hamfisted]

The Expedition's master cylinder is the same inside bore as the F-250's at 27mm . The F-350 bumps the bore up to about 32mm. I don't think your problem is an undersized master cylinder.

 

[houlster]

Could always do a hydroboost swap. Someday I'll get mine done...