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chstrumpetdude

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  1. How much did those rims set you back?
  2. I have a 32/36 on my 1940 Dodge Truck. I purchased the kit from Langdon's. I used the supplied ball joint & rod. Purchased a 3 piece ball joint set (mr gasket brand I believe) and threaded the other end. I reused the stamped steel linkage that bolts to the manifold and cut, threaded, and installed the 3rd ball joint to the long rod. I believe it was 1/4 and 22 SAE thread. My throttle linkage is now 100% rod and ball joints. The old bent rods with cotter pins had wallowed out their holes and made the linkage sloppy. I can post a pic when I get a chance. My Carter throttle body really leaked air and ran rich.
  3. My 1940 still had black paint. I had mine blasted and powder coated matte black. However, if I ever have to install windshield glass and the weatherstripping again in a windshield I am contracting it out. It works, but it is not the prettiest and was the most nerve racking/tedious thing I have done to the truck.
  4. Yep! the New Process helical box was only synchronized in 3 & 4. The 3 speed at the time was only synchronized 2 & 3. (2nd is really 1st gear ratio when comparing a 4 to 3 speed) I don't use my first gear unless I end up hauling a heavy load, which I doubt I will often. If you need to downshift to 2, there is a supposedly a trick to shift to 3 using 3's syncros to slow down and then you would be able to shift to 2 or 1 without worrying about matching the gears speed. I have a spur 4 speed that I am wanting to swap for the above reason to a transmission like yours. I live in a moderately large city and stop signs are a pain. They didn't get a synchro 2nd until the 60s I thing and by then the flathead was out.
  5. +1. Helical vs Spur easiest ID is the drain plug location.
  6. As others have stated before me on the forum and the facebook group, the Dodge M400 Chassis motor homes from the 1970s use a 5 on 8 lug pattern like our dodges, Internationals, and Fords of this era, but they are on a tubeless single piece rim. I know that Statesmen is one builder. I have only seen a couple for sale in my area and always still connected to the RV. Something that no one has brought up yet, but others have in the past, is the offset for the brake drums having enough clearance for a center rim swap (which I am unsure about)
  7. I am in the same boat. Unless I want to swap all of my axles on my 1.5 ton. That becomes almost as expensive as swapping the cab to a new frame. Double clutching in a city of 150k at stop signs gets the heart pumping and am looking into a transmission change. I don't need to go fast and my brakes were completely redone a decade ago by the last owner. That snowmobile idea has me thinking. Looks like a lot of people on pirate4x4 do diy driveshaft brakes off of their transfercases (mostly toyotas) One post has extensive photos of him building his own driveline disc brake out of 1/4 plate and the smallest pads NAPA had because he didn't want to buy the kit from sky manufacturing (Currently $170 for the caliper only BTW)
  8. I am also curious about OP's wheels and what rear end he is using since there is no longer a parking brake.
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