I'll be at Jimmy's next week. Hopefully you get sorted out by then.
The old powermaster has a horrible rep, but I've learned over the years that it does work well and reliably if you pay some attention to it. Change the fluid out regularly, at least once per year. And when the car is going to sit parked in the garage for a few days or more, go ahead the de-pressurize the powermaster by pumping the brakes with the key off. That way it's not sitting there doing nothing with 750psi of pressure built up in it for days or weeks on end.
But I'm definitely not going to tell anyone that vacuum brakes don't work well or that it's a bad idea to convert to vac....
