Just sent mine to Steve a few weeks ago. He's getting to his busy season so best call him and get it there soon. Great guy to deal with and costs are reasonable.

http://www.brakeboosters.com/default.htm

I sent one to Jerry and wasn't happy with it and had Steve do it. I had specific instructions when it went to Jerry and I would guess he sends them to someone else, and they didn't care other the instructions were lost. I had a similar situation with a balancer. He said he had a friend at ati that would take it to work and rebuild it. It was returned in a damper doctor box.

Steve Grigori does excellent work and at an equally excellent price.. :)

Steve does fabulous work and has an inventory of dated cores as well if you're looking for a booster.

FWIW guys...

I spoke at length with Steve recently, and he said he doesn't know when but that one of these days he's gonna pull the pin on doing this stuff and actually retire. He said "I started doing this years ago" when I was done working the first time.

He also said, if you know guys who want Boosters done now, you better tell them to get them into me because I likely won't be doing this much longer. He asked that I pass that along here so I guess now's the time.

I sent mine in days after he told me that. :naughty:

I've had good luck with Booster Dewey in the WA/OR area....

In post #7, I reopened a 7 year old thread on Brake Boosters.

I asked questions about RESTORING BOOSTER COMPONENTS ON MY OWN.

The next 8 or 9 posts suggested that I send my Booster(s) to Steve, Jerry or Dewey.

I am still wanting helpful suggestions.........

1) How to prep the rusted metal before having the metal Yellow Zinc DiChromate plated
in SEATTLE. I'm thinking that glass beading ALONE without additional "polishing"
would not produce the correct NEW appearance

2) What company/vendor might sell me any individual replacement parts

Thanks for telling me where you would send your boosters !!!!

The nice ones that are restored are polished. Takes out pits and gives nice surface.
I have seen the painted ones and they look terrible and if you use regular brake fluid it wll take the paint off.
I have never seen a kit to refinish with the chemical process.

OK... Following STEP by STEP to restoring your own part(s):

1) Degrease, Clean, remove old paint, etc.
2) Disassemble, sort into reusable/restorable parts and parts to be replaced.
3) For your brake booster halves, remove the rust, beadblast then polish as necessary.
4) Take the booster halves to your plating facility (in your garage or ??) and replate as per the factory specification.
5) Restore any other metal parts removed (bolts, nuts, brackets,etc)
6) Procure the rubber parts to replace the deteriorated parts
7) Reassemble using the factory process.
8) TEST ...
9) if 8 is successful, then reinstall.


How is that? And I didn't suggest you send it to Steve... :)

Gary and friends, I called and spoke with a very helpful, friendly Steve G yesterday.

I was surprised to hear that after he has his booster halves polished to remove any pits
that he glass beads with a fine grit/grade of glass (?) BEFORE the Yellow Zinc plating.

Evidently if you zinc plate over the polished metal, the results are too shiny, not correct.

My booster halves/pieces are not "pitted" but only surface rusted. I'm wanting to glass bead the surface rust and then run booster half(s) thru a shaker machine....This
will be an experiment to see how I can condition the metal surface before plating..........