This is my first post on STOVEBOLT. I have had my 51’ Chev 3600 flat bed for about 40 years. Don’t drive it much, use it for work around my property. Lately the rear brakes have been making noise. I drove it into oldest brake shop in town (a converted old gas station).
The owner told me that the 3/4 ton trucks were made with one of three different drums which can be identified by a number stamp on the drum. He also told me that the 3/4 ton rear drums were so hard to find that he has seen guys put different rear axels in. He wanted to pull drums to check out the problem and the number, but I elected not to have it done at that time.
My questions are:
1. Are there 3 different drums, which are not interchangeable?
2. Are the drums REALLY hard to find?
3. Has anyone heard of guys having to change the whole rear axel because of drum availability.
