Hello from Oklahoma

[cavtrooper78]

For my M35 I use wheel cylinders from NAPA. They are made in China, so I use the made in USA NAPA rebuild kit for those wheel cylinders. The rebuild parts are marked Made in USA. In the end the only Chinese parts you will use are the wheel cylinder and bleeder valve. I never had any problems with these parts. This might save you time if you have a NAPA store close by.

I may do that if I need another set. With what’s on the truck, the rebuild kits I have on hand I should be good for awhile. I imagine they’d have been less expensive than Tempe ones at big mikes lol.
I planned on rebuilding all of them, but when I took the first one off there was a lot of pitting so for the sake of expediency I just got 4 to do the rear axles. The other three seem to be smooth. The previous owner put dot3 in the system which is fine as long as it doesn’t sit too long for that ethylene glycol to pull water from somewhere. I imagine why I’ve seen a bit of pitting.

 

[cavtrooper78]

Got a lot done today. I pulled all of the duals off and got all of the wheel cylinders installed. I thought I’d need a wheel dolly but I didn’t end up needing one. Also thank God for my paved driveway.
I still need to go pick up bearing grease, rtv (hopeful I can find the kind that doesn’t break down with the 90w, and 90 w. I remember one time when I was a private I was working on a CUCV I forgot to refill the differential and the axle seized up on the test drive. I learned really fast not to cut corners and do things by the numbers.
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I tell you what I’m glad I spent some time going through the forums because I didn’t realize how much I had forgotten. Once I got into it though things started coming back, but had I not researched everything first I’d have been fairly anxious because I just didn’t remember a lot of stuff. Heck I haven’t worked on a truck past operator level stuff since 2008.

 

[cavtrooper78]

Got the wheels all put back together. Now I just need to do the brake adjustments, put the wheels back on and fill the differentials. I did find I’m missing the inspection window covers on a couple of my drums. I’d like to either find em or fabricate a couple. Can’t be too hard since it’s just a rectangular piece of metal with a bolt hole in it.
I also ran across this short video Garret did on his channel. Anyone try these yet?