I climbed under to attach my new brake lines, but the diagram in my book doesn't include regular leaf AND overload leaf springs. Nothing I try makes sense, so I was hoping that someone else had applied new brake lines with overload leaf springs xand could advise me on over, under...
- '46 Chevy truck - 1/2 ton - Applying new rear brake lines with overload leaf springs - Farm truck from Kansas in his past life, and I'm leaving him as-is.
1946 Chevy Getting started on Bruno Follow the story in the DITY Gallery You can't buy happiness but you can buy a truck ... and that's pretty much the same thing.
Did the truck not have any brake lines installed when you got? Can you use the old ones as templates? Pictures before removal?
1950 Chevrolet 3100 (Ol' Roy) 1939 Packard Standard Eight Coupe (The Phantom) | 1956 Cadillac Coupe de Ville (The Bismarck) | 1956 Cadillac Sixty Special Fleetwood (The Godfather) | 1966 Oldsmobile Toronado (The Purple Knif) | 1966 Ford Mustang (Little Red) | 1964 Ford Galaxie 500 coupe | 1979 Ford F-100 | 1976 Ford F-150 (Big Red) | 1995 Ford F-150 (Newt)
We did, but I failed to get a picture of the connection directly on the rear driver's side wheel. Ugh!
1946 Chevy Getting started on Bruno Follow the story in the DITY Gallery You can't buy happiness but you can buy a truck ... and that's pretty much the same thing.
1950 Chevrolet 3100 (Ol' Roy) 1939 Packard Standard Eight Coupe (The Phantom) | 1956 Cadillac Coupe de Ville (The Bismarck) | 1956 Cadillac Sixty Special Fleetwood (The Godfather) | 1966 Oldsmobile Toronado (The Purple Knif) | 1966 Ford Mustang (Little Red) | 1964 Ford Galaxie 500 coupe | 1979 Ford F-100 | 1976 Ford F-150 (Big Red) | 1995 Ford F-150 (Newt)
Hope these may be of some help in solving your problem (yes I shamelessly swiped your pics and marked them up a bit).
Of note is the absence of the brake line to brake wheel cylinder hardware (red arrow on book diagram pic) that plays a big part in connecting your brake line to the cylinder.
The brake line does not directly thread into the wheel cylinder in this instance like you see on more modern set-ups.
Helpful???
Let us know how it works out. After pictures would be great!
Happy New Year
~ Dan 1951 Chevy 3 window 3100 Follow this story in the DITY Gallery "My Grandpa Carl's Truck and How it Became Mine" 1966 Chevelle (Wife's Hot Rod) | 2013 Chevy Silverado (Current daily driver) US Army MSG Retired (1977-1998) | Com Fac Maint Lead Tech Retired (1998-2021)
Otto - We kept everything for reference but, since my pictures don't quite catch the connection... I thought that I thought of everything.
Gdads - Thank you so much! We had just about narrowed it down to that, and then we had to get cleaned up because our kids were coming over. I really appreciate it!! Now I feel confident in connecting it all.
Happy New Year!!
1946 Chevy Getting started on Bruno Follow the story in the DITY Gallery You can't buy happiness but you can buy a truck ... and that's pretty much the same thing.
Would love if you can add an "after" pic to show everyone what you did. When time permits of course.
Will maybe prove useful to help answer some future Bolter's question.
~ Dan 1951 Chevy 3 window 3100 Follow this story in the DITY Gallery "My Grandpa Carl's Truck and How it Became Mine" 1966 Chevelle (Wife's Hot Rod) | 2013 Chevy Silverado (Current daily driver) US Army MSG Retired (1977-1998) | Com Fac Maint Lead Tech Retired (1998-2021)
may be of some help in solving your problem (yes I shamelessly swiped your pics and marked them up a bit). 
