In preperations for the upcoming
All Truck Nationals and Stovebolt Reunion I've been wanting to get another of my projects on the road and to the show. So I took a long weekend off work last week (Was needing a couple mental health days) and decided to thrash on my 2 Ton some.
Here's what I got done.
- Pulled and rebuilt the Master Cylinder.
- Front wheel cylinders (one rebuilt, one replaced).
- New front brake pads. (Wow 14inch by 2.5inch)
- Cleaned all the old grease out of the bearings inspected and repacked them with new grease.
- Replaced all the hard brake line and all rubber lines with new. (Some was copper?? Glad I replaced it all.)
- Replaced all the fuel line.
- Cleaned up the front hubs and painted them.
- Cleaned up the front wheels, painted, and had new tires installed.
- Removed the Hydrovac to be rebuilt at a later date.
- Replaced the ground and power cables on the battery with new.
This weekend I went back up to the farm to finish the work.
- Pulled the rear wheels to inspect the brakes and decided not to rebuild the wheel cylinders at this time, everything there looked great.
- Bled the whole system.
- Cleaned out the cab, the usual mouse leavings, dirt, dust...
- Torched the grain box sides and front off the flatbed (That amounted to 37 feet of cutting torching) they were welded on.
Next after giving the engine (That run's great since I got the truck) a quick once over. Went ahead and and test drove it into town. She stops great once the brakes engage but still takes more pedal than I prefer, not sure if this is due to the lack of the HydroVac in the system or if I need to do some more bleeding, the shop manual recommends bleeding the brakes with a pressure bleeder is this a must with the big trucks?
Next I started the long trek back to KC at 45 MPH. About 3 hours later I rolled into my buddy Jerry's place to show him "Big Red" or "Lucky #7" as I've started calling it.
I'll follow this post up with some pics and detail on some of the stuff I did. So hold off for a few on the reply's til I can write up the other bits.
MONGO
