JBNeal

mmmmmmmm I reckon that is an odor that you will never forget 🔥 Years ago, when I focused on the parking brake on the '48, I too also had little information to work with other than knowing a local company could reline the practically bare band that I had...I assumed that they knew what they were doing when they asked what application the band was used on, but eventually realized that they riveted a lining that fit that they had on the shelf, which turned out to be too long and too thick [cue masculine punchline here]...with band adjustments out to stop the dragging, the parking brake did not hold, and not having anything available to trim the lining back, I opted to readjust to having a functional parking brake. So for a long while, driving that old truck around was accompanied with the smell of simmering brake lining...YUM...eventually the lining ends wore down enough that the brake worked as it should, but I can still smell those first thousand miles in that old buggy...good times

It might be helpful to future searches for 1951 Plymouth Belvedere replacement shock absorbers if ya shared exactly what you installed...this helps add to the local database

VINTAGEPIC: spotted this pair of big B-1or2 cowl workhorses at a pit stop on the FB

VINTAGEPIC: saw this big B-4 hauling some pop on the FB