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Working on the M1078 LMTV

mkcoen

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De-pollenating the LMTV for an event in Austin this weekend. If you've never spent spring time in Central TX you're missing out on the wonderful layer of yellow gunk that coats EVERYTHING this time of year. I know you folks in the northeast are still fighting snow but my wife would trade you pound for pound in oak pollen.
 
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mkcoen said:
De-pollenating the LMTV for an event in Austin this weekend. If you've never spent spring time in Central TX you're missing out on the wonderful layer of yellow gunk that coats EVERYTHING this time of year. I know you folks in the northeast are still fighting snow but my wife would trade you pound for pound in oak pollen.
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Take some of that oak stuff and brew it in hot water. Makes an excellent oak tea! :D
 
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When I got my M 1078 home I noticed the rear drivers brake pads were missing. Well not really missing but had literally cracked and fallen off the backing plate. I'll be doing a brake job on the rear drivers. Any advice on where to get the brake shoes? Probably also have to get plungers as well. From the looks of it the drivers rear brakes and probably seized up, overheated and then disintegrated! Somebody probably had his baby over 100MPH! Yeah think?
 
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KGBruce said:
When I got my M 1078 home I noticed the rear drivers brake pads were missing. Well not really missing but had literally cracked and fallen off the backing plate. I'll be doing a brake job on the rear drivers. Any advice on where to get the brake shoes? Probably also have to get plungers as well. From the looks of it the drivers rear brakes and probably seized up, overheated and then disintegrated!
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Not sure about new stuff but any time I need a part I check with Suprman 1st. If he doesn't have something he generally knows where to get it.
 
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You should be able to get your shoes at just about any big truck parts house or NAPA. I looked into them at San Diego Friction and I believe they where something like $75.00 a set. That was also about 2 years ago.
 
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The 3 day events are always the fun ones. Pretty heavy rain on Fri so just an abbreviated show but cleared off over night. Heavy dew this morning but sunshine and about 80 so a perfect day for the show.

Allan I’ll be sure to tell everyone you wished you were here. We’ll toast you with a breakfast taco in the morning.
 
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Anyone remember back to page 70 when I lost my fan clutch? The same thing just happened to Adventure Driven's M1079 only he was much further away from home than I was when mine happened. It sounds like he was able to source all of the newer parts and will hopefully be back on the road tomorrow but it's an abject lesson (repeated) as to the inferior design of the older clutch/fan set up. If you have that style, where the fan is sandwiched between the clutch and an aluminum spacer and an aluminum center to the actual fan, you'd be miles ahead, literally, to change it out while it's in your drive way and not hundreds of miles from home.

As an aside, whether related or not, he just had AC added last week. That's about the same time frame of my AC install and fan clutch grenade. Whether that's a coincidence or actually related is hard to tell but any time you have your cab tilted reach in and shake the fan to make sure it's still solidly mounted and not starting to wobble.
 
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