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| | | | Joined: Aug 2001 Posts: 5 Junior Member | | Junior Member Joined: Aug 2001 Posts: 5 | I have been trying to locate brake return springs for my 48 2-ton rear brakes and have had no luck with the local parts house. J. Carter advertises them, however when you get the ME148's they are not the proper length. In fact his catalog states that they are 7" long as they should be, but the spring he sends out is 10" long. Any ideas where to find a correct spring? I need to get the truck going to be in a parade this weekend in Omaha, NE.
We will never be able to go back to the time when life was more simple and not as fast paced, but driving and owning an old Chevy truck helps one remember.
| | | | | Joined: Aug 2001 Posts: 5 Junior Member | | Junior Member Joined: Aug 2001 Posts: 5 | This morning when I woke up a strange thing happened. No not that. The springs from J. Carter transformed themselves into the correct 7" springs instead of the flimsy ones that my wife had switched them out for prior to my discovery of the order. She figured THIS would be funny as she knew how frantically I had been searching for the correct springs. The joke is on me.
We will never be able to go back to the time when life was more simple and not as fast paced, but driving and owning an old Chevy truck helps one remember.
| | | | | Joined: Oct 2003 Posts: 445 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Oct 2003 Posts: 445 | If only you can find those smoke booms and fire cracker you use to put on the plug wire.boy would this raddle her when she started the car.make suer ya got a camera.pay back is fun
dan-pa
| | | | | Joined: Feb 2000 Posts: 988 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Feb 2000 Posts: 988 | I think your wife should be the honorary Stovebolter of the Month!!!!! Tooo funny !!!
Well try to have fun, we know your wife is! LOL
Brian Moore
1949 3100 5 window Deluxe
"Today is better than yesterday, but not as good as tomorrow"
| | | | | Joined: Jun 2000 Posts: 2,773 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Jun 2000 Posts: 2,773 | Wives. You have to love them, even though you don't always know why! But it does sound like something I would do. 
Fred
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69 C-10
| | | | | Joined: Feb 2003 Posts: 452 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Feb 2003 Posts: 452 | "Women. Can't live with 'em.... Pass the beer nuts"
Norm Peterson (Cheers)
Current fleet (subject to change w/o notice) \'49 GMC 3/4-Ton , 60 Austin Healey Frog-eye Sprite (some assembly required), 2011 Dodge Avenger, 2015 Jeep Cherokee. No, they don't all run. My other ride is a (B737)no, (B767)no, A320.... Update... was Embraer E190, now Boeing B787. Knowledge is a wonderful thing, but ignorance means you don't know you can't do something.
| | | | | Joined: Jan 2004 Posts: 12 Junior Member | | Junior Member Joined: Jan 2004 Posts: 12 | I purchased the ME148's and they were the right ones and size. I would try to call them to see if they sent the right stuff. | | | | | Joined: Jan 2005 Posts: 364 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Jan 2005 Posts: 364 | bda, read the WHOLE thread.
It's quite a life,
when you've got a wife.
It ain't no fun,
if you don't have one.
Keith
If it were easy they'd have grade schoolers doing it!
| | | | | Joined: May 2005 Posts: 1 Junior Member | | Junior Member Joined: May 2005 Posts: 1 | Anyone ever seen a scale model of a 1951 chevy. Any scale would be ok. If one exist, I would like it to be the green like the original 51 I have which has been in the family since it was purchased. Shawn, a good mechanic would make do with whatever springs you had. My gosh, how long have you been married and still get fooled like that. Makes you wonder if you'll ever catch on.
R. E. Petri
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