| |
Click on image for the lowdown. 
====
| | |
0 members (),
142
guests, and
2
robots. | | Key: Admin,
Global Mod,
Mod | | | Forums66 Topics128,132 Posts1,056,730 Members48,454 | | Most Online14,466
Apr 26th, 2026 | | AD Chevy Trucks  Over 6,000 pictures Brad Allen has an awesome collection of Chevrolet factory pictures that he has set up from film strips. Check them out!
Lots of work on Brad's part ... pure enjoyment (and references) for you!
| | THANKS!
For helping keep this great
old truck web site
on the Internet for over 30 years! and not clogged down
with Ads!  Again, thanks!
| | | | Joined: Jun 2012 Posts: 166 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Jun 2012 Posts: 166 | In starting to work on my brakes on this big ol truck I ran into an issue right off. The nut on top of the mc has been stripped pretty bad and its impossible to get a wrench or socket on from the top. The floorboard hole is too small to get anything thru onto the nut. From underneath I can't get anything on it either suffiecent to get enough torque to bust it loose. Is my only option to remove a cable that's in my way, or either remove the whole mc itself ? It doesnt look easy whichever path I take  Thanks | | | | | Joined: Nov 2005 Posts: 6,100 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Nov 2005 Posts: 6,100 | Hy Red63, I know you're not going to like reading this, but I would bite the bullet and remove the master cylinder from the truck. It is much easier to do everything with it clamped in a vice, good luck with it! | | | | | Joined: Jun 2012 Posts: 166 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Jun 2012 Posts: 166 | Thats what I thought you'd say  Thanks for getting back | | | | | Joined: Aug 2013 Posts: 255 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Aug 2013 Posts: 255 | Yeh, it's probably going to need rebuilt anyways, might as well make it easy. Soak all the bolts and tube nut with PB Blaster or Croil or some type of penetrant overnight. Hopefully your tubing won't twist off. Good luck. Jim | | | | | Joined: Aug 2013 Posts: 255 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Aug 2013 Posts: 255 | What series 450 is yours. I have a 50 HC453 5 window firetruck I'm working on. | | | | | Joined: Nov 2010 Posts: 1,159 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Nov 2010 Posts: 1,159 | Mine does that to me every Spring. I use a pair of vice grips,(to clamp on the cover),then a pair of channel locks,to turn the vice grips. Hope this helps. | | | | | Joined: Jun 2012 Posts: 166 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Jun 2012 Posts: 166 | Wow, thanks for the suggestions fellas... My truck is the HC 453 3 ton. Its a retired military truck, but its last career was farming. Now, it's just a fun project-truck and sometimes pain in the neck too | | |
|
|
| |
