Brake Drum / Carb Questions

[DollyDodge]

Question 1: About 1975 we replaced the entire rear end (axle housing brakes, drums-the entire unit) on my B-2-C with a rear end out of a 1960 vintage dodge ½ ton pickup (I can’t remember the exact year, the chalk is still on the rear end all I can read is Dodge ½ ton, 196, the last digit is blurred.). The old rear end completely failed so we went to the scrap yard and got the 1960s model version. The problems is this, one of the drums has a misfit lug bolt. It is smaller and has the opposite thread direction. Someone welded it in place. Can I get the correct lug and replace the wrong one, or would someone happen to have the correct drum? Also, is there much difference in a ¾ ton rear end and the ½ ton. At the time one of the reasons we made the change was the new rear end let me travel faster. The old one only let me go about 45 mph max.

Question 2: Are the brake cylinders the same as the 1950 brakes? They look the same.

Question 3: I was wondering if anyone knows a source for the soft (aluminum I suppose) plug that goes in the bottom of the carburetor tank. Mine is leaking slightly, and tapping it in a bit more didn’t help. It is fairly beat up. I went to the auto parts store and they said they can’t be purchased. I was surprised the plug wasn’t in the carb kit.

[greg g]

Can you swap the plug with oe of similar size from another part of the carb? Then put the on that leaks in the other spot? You might try to take a utility knive and cut some thread like groves in the beat up one. That would give you some raised edges the would assist in holding it i its new home. Kid of like knurlig it. The one i the bottom of the float bowl is for the main jet, and exposed to fuel. Som of the other ones ar in air passages. Try swapping the one from the accelerator jet area.

[Young Ed]

I'm pretty sure the Napa carb kits I have used came with those aluminum plugs.

[DollyDodge]

I hate to order a whole new kit to get the plug, but maybe I will do that.

[Bob_Koch]

On the carb plug, I've heard of two solutions. #1. Tap it in tighter - since you already did that go to #2, seal over the plug with epoxy.

[Young Ed]

Lots of people never change those when they rebuild the carb. I never do. I should have one someplace leftover. I will look.

[DollyDodge]

Yep, I tried the tapping, and I was thinking of getting the JB weld out to cover it, but I would rather have a new plug if I can get one. (someone had tapped it in before, because it is in all the way up to the flange.

If you find a plug let me know I will be glad to pay for it.