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We are looking to change over to a dual master cylinder on our 1950 3100, and in looking through various chat rooms etc. am I correct to understand that we can take the dual master cylinder from ANY Chevy truck for this purpose? We planned to pick up the mounting kit from the Filling Station to use for this conversion. Has anyone had any success/failure with this particular kit or process? Any suggestions on a particular dual master cylinder that we should seek out?
Thanks for the help!

You did not say why you wanted to change over to a dual master cylinder on your 1950 3100 truck. Unless you are changing out the stock brakeing system for a modern power disc brake or power disc brake/drum brake system this may be something unnecessary.

For a stock brake system to get some power assist you might want to consider a original master cylinder/hydravac system as was used on the larger Chevrolet medium duty trucks. If you are going to do a custom power brake system you should be limited only by your imagination since everything will have to be customeized anyway. Unless you want a very personal customized system it may pay you to check with some of the custom rodding vendors. I have seen some fine looking systems both firewall mounted and under the floor mounted master cylinders. I never had the need to road test any of them, just looked.

Thanks for the response MrMack.
We have just finished refurbishing the drums and replacing all the lines etc. If it was going to be an "easy" process, we simply thought that it would be a good time to install a dual master cylinder just as a safety measure. However, as it seems per your note that this might not be as "standard" a conversion as we had thought, perhaps we should re-think this. We definitely do not want to go with a power disc system, just thought that the dual master might make for a significant upgrade while we have the easy access.
By what you say below, would you recommend NOT converting to the dual master on our particluar truck?

Hey Ben, look at it this way, your truck is 58 years old and has stoped all it's life on a stock master cylinder. She is still here and not crushed. If these brakes work right, you will be fine with the stock cylinder. Just my opinion...Oscar :) :)