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I've struck out at all my local flaps and junkyards. My "new" 1948 has 3 shoes on the front that look brand new and one that is ground all the way down to metal. Anyone have a part number or a place to get these?

Plenty of 1/2 ton and 3/4 tons variants available but looks like the 1-ton has larger front brakes?

I had new linings put on mine and I am very happy with them.

Can you give me a rough idea of what that cost? I am waiting for a contact to get back to me on whether I can have this done locally....

I paid $350 CAN for all pads to be blasted / cleaned and relined. They also machined my drums slightly but didn't charge for that.

I keep trying to link a photo, but when I do the post shows up as blank...

Hey Moderator!

I've been reading about this blank posting stuff... I've made an observation that I'm not sure that's been noted yet....

When I use the "Create a link to webpage" button to create a link to a photo, if I use the display text "...click..." the post shows up empty.

The two posts above are the same link, the first I used "PIC" the second "...click..."

Your results look great!! Not in my budget for this, though... It's a rat-rod and I certainly don't need to spend the money on making that part (that will never be seen) sparkle.

Still hoping to find a NAPA part # that will swap in.... but.... starting to suspect I'll just have to have one shoe relined.

48bomb,

Welcome to the StoveBolt forum. Good to se another 1 ton fan. I also live in the twin cities and own a 1950 1 ton. I redid all my brakes last year, had the front shoes relined in Minneapolis, very affordable. Been working great ever since. The company also had all the wheel cylinders & master cylinder in stock. Let us know if we can answer more questions.

Thanks! I'm swapping over to a 1970s C10 dual master cylinder -- NAPA M1880 and O'reilly actually had the wheel cylinders in stock for $38/each.

I pulled out the old brake tees and those cleaned up pretty nice to be reused. I was going to try and salvage the front lines (seemed to not be original) but now I think it's going to just be easier to replace them.

Haven't gotten to the rear brakes yet, but suspect those will take the same R&R as the fronts. I suppose I'll pick up another set of jackstands so that I can pull those apart and see if any of those shoes need to be replaced. (3) of the front shoes measure 3/16" of lining remaining -- I compared it to a new NAPA shoe (that was the wrong size) and they only had 1/4" of material.

I'm going to make another thread in a couple of days on towing, but... has anyone ever towed with one of these with the 235? I only tow my boat 1-mile @ 25mph but I'd like to do it with this truck. The boat trailer has dual axles, dual brakes and weighs about 6500lbs.

Thought I heard someone mention that they were able to swap in the newer Bendix brakes on the old style backing plates. Parts are a little cheaper and easier to obtain.

Thanks man,

although that was the result of a $14 gravity fed sandblaster and a $10 rattle can of silver paint!

I just wanted to inhibit rust down the road.

Your biggest hurdle will be with rear drums - as they're not reman'd anywhere...

Doh! Hopefully the drums on the back are in as good of shape as I found the drums to be in the front. I'm sure I'm not done with headaches, though....

If your one ton is a dual rear wheel PM me and you can have my old brake parts off my 47 first series.Pay shipping from miami and their yours.new shoes,wheel cyl.etc

!!! Man -- I love this forum! This message (and I received a PM about a guy with 2 parts trucks that is near me.) Amazing!

I'll send you a PM when I figure out what I need. In order to do that, I need to figure out how to remove the rear drum. I found a service manual and it said that I did not have to remove the hub flange and hub to remove it.... but.... I'm not seeing any other way?

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Dropped off the front brake shoes at Brake and Equipment Warehouse in Minneapolis. They recommended that I do all four (no surprise here.) They had the linings in stock. $80 will get me all new shoes and hardware. I thought that was very reasonable.

Any more insight on how I can remove the rear drums? I'm not sure on the forum etiquette for this. Should I make a new thread?

Drums, read that part of your service manual first, start a new thread if still necessary.

Thanks,
Grigg

I have a 1953 1 ton Chevrolet long box pickup and a and a 1950 1 Ton GMC, both Canadian trucks. I couldn't find shoes for them either. the 1950 has the earlier design and the 1953 has the more modern design of brakes. (drums are almost interchangeable but need a small modication to work.) I had my existing shoes re-lined for about $50 each wheel pair, two days time and everything works really well.

I think we would be very interested in the small modification to the drums that was mentioned. The one tough part with these old 1 Tons is finding drums.

I believe that the 1950 drums had a slightly larger inside flange, and I had to turn about 1/16" off the inner edge closest to the backing plate to make them fit, if my memory serves me correctly.

I had my brake shoes for my 49 one ton relined from Jim Carter, I am very pleased.