Recent content by Baron_Bergamot

Nooo not confusing at all! Couldn't be simpler. Well, it looks sevicable by my eye so it;; all be going back on getting vacced down and she'll stop like she should. Just attending to some welding in the cab at the moment.

I did get the fronts off actually as the passenger brake was binding heavily and pulled the wheel cylinder off to find Lockheed stamped on the casting. So it does appear to be Lockheeds all round. And are noted in the book as "single anchor self energising" or something like that. However...

USA this one, made in Richmond, Virginia.

So I have since taken the drum off the passenger side rear as the brakes were binding heavily and found out that the wheel cylinder rear piston was seized solid. And stamped all over it was "Wagner Lockheed USA" and the drums are bang on 14" id. Looked to me like someone had already had a go...

I have found another set, Ford Econoline e350 15" wheels. Which I assume fit as they are 8x6.5 as well. You gotta search high and low for this stuff in the UK. Its hard to come by. Seems to me its Lockheed rears then, probably early model. I have read somewhere the Lockheeds are a pain in the...

So on my search for more information on my new old truck I found out from a very knowledgeable member, Stu, that . . . I sought to replace the 'widowmaker' RH5s with some 16" front and 16.5" rears from a later 1950s F250 but when I went to measure my rear drums they are... 14". Denoting...

So on further inspection the handbrake lever is located next to the shifter, in the same gearbox cover plate, not in the footwell. It is absolutely wearing 17" split wheels with 7.5x17" hoops as you described Stu. Might look at changing those... I didn't take any wheels off the other day when I...

I love to find out things I never knew that I never knew . . . part of the fun of old vehicles in my opinion. I'll have a measure up when I'm next with it and see if its 14 or 12 drums. I believ the handbrake is right of the shifter, though it does seem quite far away from the drivers...

Thank you all for the replies. That was very useful. Shame title searches don't go back anymore, I mean to be fair that's more than you get here in the UK. Our titles are called "V5C" (vehicle logbook) and as far as I am aware there is simply no way to trace anything with it. And thanks to...

So before I get into it, I'm brand new here and have been lurking a little while reading the oil threads... but I thought I'd chime in with a question. I couldn't find a dedicated thread for this kinda thing so I figured 'Early V8' would be as good a place as any. Important bit: I have Ford F3...