Los_Control

Just to be clear, Estrada motorsports is a regular poster on this forum. 100% their work and nothing to do with me, I just shared the link.

worth watching this vid on it

What I have done on a 1972 CJ5, was broke down with a bad axle bearing in the parking lot of a machine shop. They loaned me a old steel 16" 8 lug wheel with a short chain on it. Bolt the chain to the axle, raise the wheel about chest level and let it swing down between your legs. I suppose the wheel weighs about 25 pounds, with the downward momentum, The axle jumped out of it's home with 1 swing. Never tried it on a old dodge, I would try it again first before going to a slide hammer. Sure the slide hammer works fine, just seems like more work to me .... the chain and weight is just a bigger hammer is all.

I am actually ignorant on this issue. I know my B1C had the 11" brake drums on the rear with the 5,5" bolt pattern. While the front had the 1/2 ton front axle with 10" drums 4.5" bolt pattern. As far as I know, the 3/4 ton just had a little heavier leaf spring pack, bigger brakes. Wheel base was a little longer and they offered a longer bed. A trained eye can spot the wheel base and know it is a 3/4 ton and not a 1/2 ton. Really not a lot of difference between them. I moved out of state and never got to finish that truck, I gave it to a friend. Because the 11" drums are even harder to find then the 10", I planned on a rear axle swap and front disk brake conversion. For a daily driver this was simply the cheaper way to fix a bunch of issues. That may not work for your plans. Depends on if you want to restore, or repair and drive? My point is, 3/4 ton brake parts will not be easy to find used. Price of 1 new brake drum from ebay, would pay for a complete axle swap with modern brakes. For ~$2k you can put new brakes on that truck, for ~$400 you can do a axle swap with modern brakes. Today I have a B1B and plan to keep it as bone stock as I can. Different truck with a different plan, And I have a spare rear end hoping to get 2 good drums out of 4. If I run into brake drum issues, I will do the axle swap on this one. Oddball trucks and just not a lot of choices for aftermarket replacement parts. For a price they are available.

Also 3/4 ton are 11" drums while 1/2 ton are 10" ?

I would only guess, The bushing on the shaft wears out ... the driver grabs the pedal and bends it, so it does not scrape on the toe board ... rinse & repeat I would be more surprised if the pedal was not bent after all these years.

Too bad the neighbors do not pickup their trash, see a piece of cardboard blew into your driveway Good looking pan!

My 1949 B1C had studs and nuts on the rear. Old farm truck, farmer had swapped in a 1/2 ton front end so it had bolts on the front. Just curious now if the 3/4 tons had studs/nuts front and rear? Is it even possible to swap brake drums front and rear? Thinking center hole may not be the same. Thinking the studs were good for dual wheel applications, but may have used bolts on front? I really have no idea and will be quiet now

I love gassers, they do have the cool factor. Something as complete and as good as this one is, I feel would be a shame to make it a gasser... Most times I feel something, not important to anyone else. I try not to do this in public.

To me it sounds like, which came first ... chicken or the egg. If the oil pump failed it would not provide lube to the bearings. If the bearings failed, would require more effort from the oil pump to keep up with the slop? Either way, I wish you the best of luck, sounds like you were on top of it and the repair may not be so bad.

No Idea how many miles I had on my astro. I really did like it though, it had a factory manual 5 speed in it ... I have never seen another. The 4.3/manual would run forever .... sadly as a carpenter, it just was not big enough to haul materials. Far as the mopar mini vans go, I had some old foggy tell me the transmissions were just to small for the weight. True? I dunno. Wife has a 1993 caravan, she inherited from her mother when she passed away. Father bought it used with a bad trans at 140k miles. Had it rebuilt and was driven very little afterwards, mother was sick. Right now it has 181k miles on it, and I would drive it anywhere. 150k it needed a fuel pump. Since the wife owned it, we drove it from WA > NM > WA > TX > WA > TX > WA >TX >NM >TX >NM ... you get the idea. Just a 27 year old car that has been kept up on maintenance. at 3k miles it will use about 1/2 quart oil, and I change it. Comfortable seats, cold ac, loud radio, cruise control, A little cargo room ... what more you want? Father inlaw spent $2k on the trans rebuild and removed/installed it himself. Was it worth it? Happy wife happy life. Myself I would never had put $2k into it, Curious to see how far the rebuilt trans go. As is, just to good of a car to consider replacing, the 70k mile tires still have 50k left \0/

While working on my Uncles 67 international a few years ago. I changed the points and condenser, was a no start. After some trouble shooting, figured out the condenser was bad, so bought another from napa. Uncle would only deal with napa .... once a year he would bring 4 extra large pizza to feed the crew. Just saying, he only bought auto parts from napa. So after buying the 2nd condenser, truck fired right up and I started to tune it. When I shut the truck off, it would never start again. This time I went out in the back yard and stole a condenser from a engine that had been sitting for 20 years. Worked perfect and truck ran great after that. Only point is, with the cheap Chinese crap we are stuck with today, I plan to move to a slant 6 electronic ignition when my 30 year old ignition parts fail.

I thank you and appreciate the efforts you have applied to our kids. I have been lied to my entire life, why exactly do you think I should accept what you have been taught and teach? I apologize to Sam Buchanan Sam is exactly the person we need to teach our children. I am the person that yells at the kids to get off my lawn. As far as what we are taught about chemistry ... are you going to tell me next that oil comes from dinosaur bones? Just saying I have no faith in public schools.

I dunno, our one and only job is to bring these vehicles to the next generation. They are 70 years old now, how can we make them survive another 70 years? I dunno ... I love ya all, I just do not trust public schools or a public school teacher telling me how to preserve my truck.

My big concern with facebook was being tracked or personal info being saved ... somehow it was intrusive in my life blah blah blah. And it is all true. Same time, do you have a cell phone? Same story you are already able to be tracked. Do you use google? Yup there ya go Do you order from Amazon? They hold the contract with the CIA to supply the data storage for all this electronic information. Only point is, facebook is just a tiny corner of the entire spider web. I once thought that I would not use facebook for these reasons, Now I feel like the boat is already sitting on the bottom of the lake, is way to late to try to bail water out now. May as well use it ... your tax dollars did help build it. Just keep a open mind about what it is, and use what you want while not sharing what you do not want. Yes I am labeled as a conspiracy theorist and I wear the hat with pride.

I agree with desoto 1939, thanks Sam Buchanan I think I opened a thread on this once but never really got a solid answer on it. I may just go ahead and leave my brass plugs in for now. I did put them in dry and they did leak a bit, I think they are no longer leaking at this point. I have the new steel plugs sitting here on the bench. Maybe is just the little devil in me. I am only the care taker of this truck, preserving it for the next person when I am gone. I think it would be selfish of me to deny the next care taker the enjoyment of replacing the soft plugs in the future .... ?

I certainly plan to live longer then that .... original last over 20 years .... todays china steel you may be right

I thank you for your question to the public ... I will give my humble reply. While a manager in a bandag retread shop ... and our buffer was down for repairs and mechanic was there to fix it. I asked mechanic, Why is there such a crappy brass screw block on that shaft, obvious it wears quickly. Mechanic replied, The brass screw block cost $300, The six foot long screw shaft cost $3k ...he asked me which do you want to replace? He then went on to explain that engineers design machinery this way, A sacrificial piece to avoid replacing the prize piece. This is the same attitude I use to the brass plugs and cast iron block today. I may be wrong, but the steel plugs will easily rust out after I am long dead and ashes spread around. The next care taker should have same fun I am having in replacing them.

My two cents .... I first bought cup plugs instead of the flat .... they looked stupid as they hung out of the block 3/16" So I went back and bought the welsh plugs (convex) I installed them and looked much better. Because the old plugs were installed with the dimple in, I installed new ones same way .... wrong! You need to install with the dimple out, then when you smack it with your favorite tool, the dimple will be in, and the metal plugs will expand to seal. I bought brass, and after I installed them backwards .... yes they do leak. I read one persons opinion about not using brass because of dis-similar metals. When you put brass into the cast iron block, something is going to rot ... since the brass will not, the block will. Granted, will not happen in my life time. But to help preserve the block for the next generation, for my next and final attempt to install welsh plugs, I bought steel. Much cheaper and easier to replace the plugs then fix the block.

I wonder if a cover from another heater would fit? Mine is a model 61. Just saying you might refurbish it and use it, keep your eyes open for another cover. I measured aprox 8" from top to bottom not counting the tabs. is 7 & 3/8" wide and tabs are 4 & 7/16" apart

While it is a different model then mine, the truck master plate would go where you say

Let me add to this ....This advice is 100% correct, do not forget to backup your photos. I had a old beater computer in the shop, something did not really care about, hard drive died and I lost all of the photos I have been taking along the way. Now I am struggling because I lost the photos I had taken to help me. In the computer world, geeks say, "there are two types of computer users ... those with backups and those who wished they had backups"