The GMC CCKW

I took some of Joel's wisdom to heart and decided to attend to my brakes. What a disaster!! I was very angry at all the issues I found. Shame on me for not noticing some of them when I got it.... while other issues were not exposed until I dug deeper. The previous owner performed a brake job that even a hack would have been ashamed of!! Right now the truck has the whole under carriage removed since things were not up to my standards. The paint may look nice but underneath...well I was surprised when I removed the intermediate axles -- there were none... just covers with short stubby "ripped" three inch extenstions were the axles once were.... Oh well, better to know I will have a nice clean, properly built truck - below the rails. It pays to have a parts truck!!

Rob

A lot of amputations have happened to these old trucks. I had the drive anxels but the drive shaft was missing. Apparantly the U joints were bad at some point, so why not just use the rear axels to drive and not replace the intermediate drive shaft .

I agree..... time to make things right. I figure when I do it right, I 'hopefully' won't have to do it again. Not time like the present! Gee, the weather was so nice (60-70s) and now it is in the 80s. Why couldn't I have done this a few weeks ago???

Rob