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Great question. I think a bobbed 900 series truck would be great. There are pros and cons for each option. In my case, a big pro was that all of the constituent parts to my build were fairly well available, and very economical.

I was doing a little light reading on these brakes recently, and I think I found a likely good candidate if someone was interested in doing a similar swap: http://www.mpgseries.com/pdfs/Meritor_Q_Plus_Cam_Brake.pdf The Q plus brakes use a stamped sheet steel "spider" (their term for the...

Oh yeah, smart eyed viewers will notice that the tie rod is in front. I simply flipped the axle around so that it would work with the M35 tcase. Maybe one day I'll hide the tie rod behind the axle.

Final thought - please let me know if you have any questions or thoughts. Best, Bob

If nothing else, this post should hopefully inspire someone to go look for, in my opinion, the next big thing for our trucks, which will be either disk brakes, or the location of stamped Meritor Q series backing plates, which can then be clocked accordingly and then welded to the knuckles, for...

Hi Group, I have been extraordinarily busy over the past few months, and one of the projects has been to retrofit S cam drum brakes to my front, 5 ton axle. These are Meritor 16.5x7" air brakes, which I feel are going to be much much better than the stock juice brakes. I had a set of these...