RE: [ihc] Re: making a 1/2T a 3/4T

["Ed Sohm" <idaemes@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Dennis, 

Those drums may be cheap.  There was a time when I drove truck for a
living.  Part of the job was doing a lot of the maintenance and repairs
on the truck I drove and the trailer I pulled.  It seems like those
brake drums were around $60 at the time ('96).  Volume figures in I'm
sure, but they must have weighed 60 lbs.  

In my job I work closely with the local Sheriff and he has two of the 1
1/4 T pickups. We share equipment very well. At one point, the military
was giving them away to law enforcement agencies if they were going to
use them to combat drugs.  What better to cruise the riverbanks looking
for weed patches?  They actually get used more during snowstorms
anymore.  One of them spent the winter in my shop so I could plug it in
so it would start for a deputy's or my use if the weather got bad.  I
was just underneath it Sunday rewiring the trailer plug to pull a
disaster response trailer (8.5 X 20 cargo).  

I agree on the 4.56 gears waking up the 6.2, it does a nice job of
pulling that trailer.  Stops it nicely too, even without a brake
controller yet.  The trailer is empty right now, ~3400 lbs.   

Ed
 

 

    

-----Original Message-----
From: Dennis Bernth [mailto:scoutdude@domain.elided] 
Sent: Wednesday, March 24, 2004 7:59 PM
To: Ed Sohm; ihc@domain.elided
Cc: baradium@domain.elided
Subject: Re: [ihc] Re: making a 1/2T a 3/4T


  You said it fine Ed, I just didn't know you'd said it! I know about
the
Dodge front ends cause I had a few of them 'BS' (Before Scouts).
Actually
they're not a bad front if you keep the wheel bearings lubed; there is a
recessed, 90 degree grease zerk that you access through a hole in the
face
of the brake rotor to grease them. Guess how many people actually
bothered
to pull their front wheels every oil change and give em a shot of
grease?
Worst part is they're full time, Warn did make a kit to install lock out
hubs that looked a lot like the ones on Ford Rangers. I would imagine
that
kit and the parts are 'unobtanium' now since most of the Dodges have
gone to
make Toyotas, every one<g>.  I agree on the rear drums on the CUCV axles
too, I think Ryan might get a surprise if he's expecting 'cheap brake
drums'
the first time he buys one. I briefly had a CUCV ambulance (M 1010)- I
really wouldn't mine having one of the pickup versions, the gearing
makes
the 6.2 NA diesel actually seem like a real engine!
  Dennis
  ----- Original Message -----
  From: "Ed Sohm" <idaemes@domain.elided>
  To: "'Dennis Bernth'" <scoutdude@domain.elided>; <ihc@domain.elided>
  Cc: <baradium@domain.elided>
  Sent: Wednesday, March 24, 2004 4:16 PM
  Subject: RE: [ihc] Re: making a 1/2T a 3/4T


  > Thanks Dennis, you said it better than I did.
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