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I think Boyce is a highly regarded company. I once read an article in Road & Track in which they took a Boyce M35A2 on road and off road. They even took it to the beach in sand. They had nothing but good things to say about the truck and what a nice job Boyce had done in refurbishing it. I...

I installed Ouverson front lockout hubs on my bobbed Deuce (M35A2) six years ago. I love them. They have always worked perfectly. I'm sure the Boyce hubs are probably very good too. I don't think a company as well known as Boyce would knowingly sell an inferior product. The price sounds really...

I figured it was a 5 ton with a Cummins. Another option would be the rare 5 tons that had Mack engines. You could probably get an RR or a Mack multispeed transmission in one of those too. Spicer makes a 6 sp manual transmission for larger straight trucks. Even one of those would be a vast...

I think it would Tim. The ratio spacing would be closer and you wouldn't have the massive torque drop between 3rd and 4th and 4th and 5th. The Spicer 5sp is only about 13.5" long. Road Rangers are more like 20" or longer. I'll have to find that post.

Amen brother fleetmech! I can't remember a time when I wasn't fascinated by trucks. I would play in the sandbox or in dirt for hours with my Tonka toys building roads. My Mom never had to worry about where I was. As a kid, I even got my Dad to take me around to heavy truck dealers so I could...

I backed up Brutus to the woods and shoveled a couple of yards of wet snow out of the bed. Then we went on a hazelnut coffee creamer run.

Glad to hear it went well. No, there's not a lot of room up there.

I have a local kid that want's to help me too. His name is Al. Somehow he just doesn't seem quite right to me. I may give him a try. Tim, I'll email you about all the rest of the stuff in your post.

I decided to crawl under Brutus. Wasn't going to let a little ice stop me. This is the moustache spring. It's purpose is to hold the inner shoe away from the drum when the parking brake is released. You may be able to retrofit one if your truck has the provision for the right side (of the...

Nice post Dutch! My handbrake lever is the other style which is very different. There is no adjustment at the brake handle end. Other than that, on the drum side it looks pretty much the same. I just spread Ice melt by my truck. I should be able to look for the moustache springs tomorrow.

I read through my CD Rom TM today and I couldn't find the handbrake assembly. Just the service brakes. I usually enjoy reading tech manuals, but I'd rather jump off the roof of my house head first than read one of those damn TMs. Hate them.

You know on second thought my truck might have the moustache springs installed. I'll try and go out there and look tomorrow. My truck is currently parked on a big patch of ice in my driveway. From the picture your brake assembly looks pretty close to mine.

Well done dmetalmiki! Glad to hear of your success!

My truck too. Sometimes it really locks up hard though. Especially after I've driven him in rain or snow. Sometimes the water freezes in between the drum and shoes. Sometimes it locks so hard, that I work about dropping a drive shaft or something. I prefer the light hammer tap method to...

Recovry you could be right. I don't remember a moustache spring on my truck, but it could just be my old age addled brain/memory.

Dutch here are my thoughts on the parking brake. The little return spring is stiff enough to make it hard to install, but not strong enough or long enough to retract the brake shoes and certainly not the cable. I don't worry about that at all. Here's why. The proper shoe to drum clearance is...

Sure thing. Always like to help if I can. I have a brother that has lived in Cincinnati since college. They get snow and a lot of freezing rain down there so I'm sure they use TDG. The whole 24' x 3 0' area where I park Brutus is covered with 3" of snow that is as hard as ice. I don't get much...

Old cable in first pic. New cable installed before bolting in truck. I believe they put the cable in the jacket first and then swage on both end fittings afterwards. The second pic is how the cable attaches to the cab ebrake handle.

Yet another correction. The cable jacket at the drum end is clamped to a fixed bracket. The actual cable end has threads to screw the brake adjustment nut onto. In any case, you can't remove the cable from the jacket to lube it. Sorry about the corrections. It's been two or so years since I...

No. There isn't one to my knowledge Recovry. At least not on my M35A2. The ebrake cables have a connector for the handbrake lever on one end and a sort of ball to engage the brake band lever on the other. There really isn't any way to lube it. I wish the inner lining of the cable jacket had been...