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| | | | Joined: Feb 2003 Posts: 43 Junior Member | | Junior Member Joined: Feb 2003 Posts: 43 | I have a 59 Chevy longbed and I never drove this truck. My question is how bad are the stock brakes if everything in the system is replaced with new parts. Plan to drive the truck eveyday I can, now towing or hauling. I figured now is the best time while the chassis is still bare.
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| | | | | Joined: Jan 2003 Posts: 687 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Jan 2003 Posts: 687 | Grapevine Bob: Good question are you changing motors meaning bigger? Trying to stay pure stock? or if you are like me the spindles are so messed up might as well go disk, whats traffic like there alot of stop and go, I awlays felt the better the safer. Be interested hearing what the rest have done! Popcorn 59 stepside | | | | | Joined: Jul 2001 Posts: 3,887 Cruising in the Passing Lane | | Cruising in the Passing Lane Joined: Jul 2001 Posts: 3,887 | Bob - I've got a 58 long fleet as my daily driver - mostly around a small town, but also highway, and sometimes w/ up to 2000# on it - stock brakes work fine if ya drive sane and defensively - prolly not ideal for high speed freeway bumper to bumper every day, but then nothin would be!! [img] http://hotrodders.com/ubb/dogpile.gif[/img] keep'em clean and adjusted properly and keep the fluid topped up - hint for preventing the mstr cyl lid from siezing up and being a bugger to loosen - use a large O-ring as a gasket. Bill | | | | | Joined: Oct 2002 Posts: 4,066 Bolter | | Bolter Joined: Oct 2002 Posts: 4,066 | I have stock brakes on my 52 chevy half-ton and also on my 70 half ton international. I have no problems with either....Fred
Redryder pixMy HotrodA veteran - whether active duty, retired, national guard, or reserve - is someone who, at one point in his or her life, wrote a blank check made payable to The 'United States of America', for an amount of "up to and including my life."I am fighting cancer and I am winning the fight | Pain is part of life; misery is an option. | | | | | Joined: Feb 2003 Posts: 43 Junior Member | | Junior Member Joined: Feb 2003 Posts: 43 | Hey thanks alot. At times just have to check rather than learm from our mistakes.
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