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I redid the Airpack and brakes. The front glad-hands are broken beyond repair, so I am replacing them with European glad-hands and now I am trying to connect metric glad-hand with the old air lines using US threaded bolts. Had to use an angle grinder to get the connector through the bumper off...

I was always in the unheated workshop, so cold int he winter and not very warm in summer, in closed canisters.

Just curious. I bought several small canisters with DOT 5 for my truck. Opened one to lubricate stuff while overhauling the MC and Air Pack two or more years ago. Closed the canister, opened it yesterday and the color is much more yellowish, not like the blue hue from the freshly opened...

How to make me nervous. No way I can check what the previous owner used, just have to hope that polyurea grease at that time (2000-2009) was more expensive, or they did not had it there, or they did not do anything and the last time somebody did something was in the depot or or or...

No fording: since 1986 to 1999/2000 in a POMS depot in the Netherlands 100 miles on the meter - then on a private camping ground transporting garbage and white sand, getting to 3000 miles - and since 2010 my property, maybe 100 miles as well. Grease colors do not mean anything? Mine is a nice...

Maybe because Ajax MD started this thread on the same topic, and he was talking about the axle seals and knuckle. Should I just put some of the old grease over the spines and leave it at that then?

OK, I did NOT touch the axle or the knuckle, only took of the hub, repacked the bearings and installed a new seal. So should I do anything with that axle or just leave it as is for the moment. No time to start do the knuckle and boot stuff, the truck has to move. Also, it looks like the...

They only needed it to help adjust the hammer positioning while it was hanging in the slings off the forklift (the red cable you see). The hammer is in its place already so its free. Tomorrow we will put the hub back with two people carrying it in a sling between them, while the third one...

I use thick heavy duty long rubber gloves for grease, thin gloves for most other things. And an old bed sheet to get the grease off everything beefore, during and afterwards. Grease: I cleaned and packed both bearings in nice new grease. Now I see that the splined part of the axle just...

Not sure how putting the bearing in a freezer back will help pack it apart from keeping the mess localized. I had the bearing also laying on a piece of plastic bag and used hands and a thin screwdriver to push the grease in between the rollers. than, when everything looked full, I used the air...

I thought that I could make one myself cheaply, by using a rim of a spare tire laying around. Even bought a good 2 ton garage jack for this. Took some time before I could transport the tire to a shop that separated the tire and the rim. Then I found out that these rims are rather heavy by...

I was too quick with stating that everything looked good actually. The brake cylinder definitely had a problem and was leaking. Also, the hub was not as clean as I thought, I just did not look good. Everything is clean now. Cleaned the brake shoe surfaces with grease remover, cleaned out...

It has been freezing tonight, about 17 F in Dan's workshop. So we put the brake drum in the kitchen in front of the wood stove, the only really heated room in the workshop. It will stay there today and throughout the night. Will not do much, but it will help a bit. The seal goes into the...

Thanks for the good pics and advice, will try it today and report back

Brutacus, thanks, great pics. Putting the seal in freezer: does that not damage the rubber of the seal?

Did you have any problems putting the seal back? I bought two NOS seals for the 5-tons, really US Army surplus, in the Netherlands. Now packed the bearings, wanting to put the new seal in: no dice, maybe a fraction of a mm too wide. Tried the second one, same. Old one I could get back but also...

M39 is the official series name for the 5-tons which started in the 1950s as replacement for the WWII heavy trucks. The most common of these are the M51 (Dump) , M52 (tractor) and the M54 cargo bed. A lot of people talk about the M54 series, because that was the most common version, but an M54...

So I took off the front hubs to check their condition, also trying to see if there was a reason for asymmetric braking. Took some time before I had a closer look at the brake cylinders, had some other things to do, like taking grandkids to the netherlands and then taking care of them while...

Thanks, I will check it out once I am at my truck, hopefully tomorrow.

The problem is, I am living in the Czech Republic. All the brake lines available here - or in most of Europe - are either 8 mm (all person cars) or 12 mm for larger vans. I can get 10 mm from one of the Dutch scrapyards, but only as a roll of 50 m ($$$), while I only need 50 cm. Are copper...