Routine maintenance leads to mods. Murphy strikes

[tankerchief]

Well I bought my 69 a couple months ago and have been driving it daily. It was getting tough to stop the old truck so new brake shoes all around were in order. So off to Auotzone and get all my parts to totally rebuild the brakes. New shoes, wheel cylinders, brake hoses and spring kits for the brakes. Also got new shocks and oil to change out the rear end oil.

Turned into the brake change from hell. If it could go wrong it did. Get it on my buddies lift and all the wheels and drums off. Start on the left front and when it came time for the wheel cyclinder removal i did not have the right socket or wrench. Had just to small then just to big. Had to run my buddies for the right size, of course I sat at a trin crossing for 20 min. Get back and find out Autozone gave me the wrong size brake shoes, so back to town for shoes. So it kept on, stuck lines, rusted bolts heads rounding off. Turns out the truck had no rear brakes as the rear brake hose was clogged or collapsed on it self.

So I finally got the brakes done, adjusted and bleed. New shocks on and rear end oil changed. Good thing as it was very low on lube and it was watery. While I had it torn apart I cut out a coil and trew in some jeep spings in the back. I will get proper springs asap, just wanted to get it down a bit. Will need an alignment also but I am happy with it. My 3 1/2 yearld daughter calls it her Bubba truck so the name is sticking. I think she heard her momma call it that once. Sorry for the long rant, just had to vent a bit. Thanks for all the good tech articles as i refer to the forum often!

Here is the Bubba truck before.


After