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| | | | Joined: Jul 2014 Posts: 892 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Jul 2014 Posts: 892 | On the 3600 the shoes are narrower and the wheel cylinders aren't interchangeable with the 3800. I've tried, they are a smaller diameter so the adjusters wouldn't fit. However the springs and such may be. It wouldn't be a huge investment to order it up and try. I got wheel cylinders from Jim Carter on the condition that I could return them if they didn't fit. They didn't and I returned them no sweat. Last I looked he had 1-ton wheel cylinders in his catalog.
As for the fluid leakage it has to be going somewhere. If you have a hydrovac it could be getting sucked into the engine otherwise it's going on the ground or into a brake drum somewhere. Hydrovacs were an RPO on 1-tons. The fluid also could be displacing air that didn't get purged from the system when you bled the brakes.
1951 3800 1-ton"Earning its keep from the get-go"In the DITY Gallery1962 261 (w/cam, Fenton headers, 2 carbs, MSD ign.), SM420 & Brown-Lipe 6231A 3spd aux. trans, stock axles & brakes. Owned since 1971. | | |
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