Parts availability problems!

[MOPAR MARV]

A few months back I did some reconstructive surgery on the master bath in a 1970s house trailer for a dis-abled friend and was given a one owner, very low miles '94 Concorde as partial payment for all the work.

The problem is that the car sat un-used for extended periods of time and now pretty much the entire brake system is jacked , the ABS lite is on full-time, calipers stuck solid, Master Cylinder will not build pressure , with little to no brake pressure to one front wheel and one rear wheel.

I've tracked down, Rotors ,brake pads, replacement calipers, two front Brake Hoses and one Rear hose. Then I'm told I can not get a left rear brake hose and that both master cylinders[ABS and non ABS] are no longer serviced in Canada!!!! I need the 4 wheel ABS unit.

Nobody in Canada has been able to track one down for me!! {insert many curse words here!]

So now I'm thinking that I'm going to have to adapt another system into the car and I'm throwing the door open here looking for any suggestions on maybe a newer mopar set up that would work with out too much hassle.


I'm totally open to losing the ABS, I hate it anyway, so let the ideas fly.

 

[69.5CUDA]

for the rear hose find a "heavy equipment hyd hose shop..they can make you a brake hose for CHEEP
as for the master, you just need to find something that "fits"..i wonder if a truck unit is "close enough" if not check similar year minivan...id bet 1 or both is a bolt on fit..bypassing the ABS is a matter of a couple of T fittings and a proportioning valve

 

[MOPAR MARV]

I can get most of the hardware from a non-ABS '95 Eagle but some doorknob cracked the hard-lines off of the Master cylinder so I wouldn't trust the master cyl. to be of any use now.

I've spent several hours prowling the local wreckers looking at other Mopars but so far it looks like I'd have to replace All of the hard-lines and fittings on the whole car. Not exactly a job I want to tackle laying in a snow drift. A Cherokee exploded in my garage [stripped a parts unit] so I'm stuck working outside at the moment.

So I'm looking to keep the swap as simple as possible.

 

[Dr.Jass]

The simplest thing to do is keep it all OE. The time investment alone in such a large-scale swap isn't warranted by the car's value (not that I've checked value on first-generation LH cars of late).

Being the manager of a local parts store, I'm not keen on doing this, but my own warehouse system is devoid of any version of either part (four brands of hoses and three of master cylinder). RockAuto shows both of the parts you need in stock. The master cylinder is Wagner MC128404, and the left rear brake hose is Wagner BH130295. The latter doesn't include the copper washers, but any parts store worth its salt should be able to look up or match new ones for you.

 

[thrashingcows]

I had the same issue when looking for a new radiator for my daughter 88 Aries....searched all over Canada and the US tons of calls to parts suppliers and warehousing facilities, eventually found one old stock unit ...it had been there so long the white foam inside the box had started to turn yellow and was flaking apart!

Could you get a master cylinder with a similar bore and stroke and then pull the OEM unit apart, swap the piston and seals and re-assemble?