Originally posted by Barry Weeks:
That sounds like a cool old hauler, is it from Litfin's? Are they selling everything now that Sonny's gone?
You usually won't find a vacuum boosted master in a bigger truck, even the 1-tons used a hydroboosted master. The boost came from the hydraulics in the power steering pump.
Yeah, I did buy it from litfins. I live on the exact opposite side of delano (between delano/watertown on 16 SE) thus I only had to haul it 4 miles.
Since sonny's death his kids have been slowly working on cleaning up the yard, scrapping a lot of the literal "junk" the guy has stashed away. His son greg let me take a full tour of the yard and write down some things I was interested in, I found a bashed in miller CC/CV AC/DC inverter welding case sitting by an old buick that looked like the innards had been stolen and scrapped, it made me want to cry.
Since his kids aren't really into maintaining the yard I think pretty much everything is for sale. I told his son that I was interested in saddle tanks & transmission from an '83 C65 chevy cab & chassis truck as well as a near-mint hood from a '67 Chevy LWB. If you PM me I'll send you the numbers for his sons greg and jeff, both real nice guys, easy to deal with and very reasonable on pricing.
Regarding brakes, my truck doesn't even have hydroboost, it has nothing but the manual brake MC and my dad's 89 V3500 has hydroboost - its ugly, leaks a lot and if I could do without it and use a vacuum boosted MC I'd prefer that.
