62' GMC 3/4 ton project

[Blue666(2)]

Cool project! I really like how you kept the hand brake on the transmission. Can you provide a few details & maybe some pictures on how you put a hand brake on a NV 4500?

[RKS0069]

Thanks Nik!! Your truck is still coming along amazingly as well!

Hey TJ!
It was a long drive that day 12 hours total, I started out that morning in Sacramento and was in Portland by nine. that includes going to your house, just a quick and easy 70 mile detour.


666
Thanks! I had one main goal when I decided to go with the NV4500 and that was to keep the drive shaft parking brake and the hand brake lever. I scrapped the original idea of keeping the drum itself but was going to do what ever it took to keep the hand lever. I'll get more pictures and give some details on them here in the next few day. My wife is keeping me busy but I'll have some free time soon. I will be taking the cab back off and the engine and trans out again. they were in just for mock up in order to fab the cross member. The cab only went back on so it was easier to tow the 700 miles to Oregon. I will be able to lay it all out and take pictures then, hopefully sooner than later.

[Blue666(2)]

I like the trans mounted brake handles also. Your brake looks much more complicated than mine. Scroll down to post 2599 & 2600 for pictures. The Lokar parts made this easy. It gets the rear wheels good & tight in three clicks.

http://67-72chevytrucks.com/vboard/s...truck&page=104

[RKS0069]

I did not want to use a cable. It's actually very simple, the mount holds the caliper as well as the handle but its just two pieces of flat steel and one piece of angle. the linkage in the picture is not the final product it was just for getting an idea of what I need to do, the final product should be much nicer and yea it only takes three of four clicks to be tight. the disk is going to be mounted right there on the yoke of the transmission.

I ordered the wrong disk the first time around and it was twenty thousandths of an inch off center but it fits the yoke on the Dana 60 so I kept it and ordered the correct disk for trans yoke. In the future I plan to have two drive shaft parking brakes, one at the trans and one at the rear end at that time I will activate the rear caliper with a cable from Lokar off of the same handle but for now I'm just using the trans yoke with mechanical linkage.

[duallydude63]

i love the 2 tank idea what size & what r they off of?? thanks

[RKS0069]

Originally Posted by duallydude63

i love the 2 tank idea what size & what r they off of?? thanks

Hi,
Thanks! the tanks are from LMC If I remember correctly they are supposed to be direct Blazer replacement tanks and were around $150 each.

[RKS0069]

A few newer pictures

[dephep]

Originally Posted by RKS0069

A few newer pictures

soooooo.