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Almost home...

That's not where I live, that's halfway home. I live in a big desert. Soon it will be triple digits during the day and 90s at night. I'll spend The rest of the summer in front of the swamp cooler in the shop with the deuce.

Aw, c'mon, deuces are tiny!

My deuce. All the pics I've seen look to have the same little bolts. The assembled one I posted above is from someone else's.

Thank you, gentlemen! On a bit of a side note, I think my truck is pretty original except the LDS465 and in pretty rough shape. I could swap the frame to get rid of the reinforcements that are welded on, Sprag t case for the air shift I have, and even the cab and sheetmetal, but then is it...

I read on a modeling site about "Nancy" the gun truck that the tail lights were hung from the bed instead of the frame on the early trucks...?

So...I'm supposed to go tomorrow and pick up a $200.00 bed a few hours away. They did have a cab for same $ and have fenders too. But I'm hanging up on the originality thing. If I'm gonna bust my rear on this thing for a year, I kinda want it halfway orginal, even if it's kinda rough. Ach...

Threaded holes in the drum, you could pull it with a puller or use jacking bolts, or even some strategic holes in the backing plate, you could drive the drum off with a bar from the inside. You could still take the hub off too if you wanted to and it wouldn't be so heavy.

Maybe some big gin poles off the back to hang some big weight off of, haha.

I think so too. Probably why they just gave you a little inspection hole in the drum. It would be nice if a guy could get in there without going though all that work though, say if you just did bearings etc., and something wasn't right with the brakes. DH, no, this is the farm-abused water...

Rusty knows what I'm taking about. I think Toyota have them too. Might be able to knock it off with the hub still on there, but I dunno. First thing in the AM.

I removed all the little nuts and knocked the drum off the hat that is inboard after I removed the hub from the spindle. If there were jacking bolts (threaded holes in the drum between the mounting holes), one could remove the drum from the hat and service the brakes without draining oil, etc.

Stb, I found telltale bed ubolt plate marks in the paint on the bottom of the frame. :-) Also, I started researching paint and looking at my truck, and I'm pretty sure its USMC Forest Green, not army olive drab. There are some things that are OD, such as the oil cooler housing and injector...

I think I'm gonna put some in mine...

This. I may not be a 6x6 expert (yet), but I have done a lot of offroading. When you get low, below 15 psi, one or two pounds makes a lot of difference, esp. the lower you go. 6x6s are nose heavy, and winches make it worse, but then you have something to yank yourself out.

Air down. Way down. Flat. How low did you do take it?

Sounds about right. Time to get a group buy together... How about a plate and tube pressed/welded assembly instead of billet? Less material to hack off, but more time to put it together, probably a wash. If the original is cast, some high grade alum might work, but it wouldn't be cheap...