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I'm actively looking into that route. Unfortunately peashooter doesn't offer his kits currently, but I've contacted him to see what knowledge he can share as far as the soft lines, in addition to the excellent info he has already shared about the hard lines.

Only very expensive carbon/carbon brakes maintain effective stopping when heated until glowing. My point is, even in a 1-off emergency, you would smoke a typical brake rotor/caliper setup using it to try to haul a deuce to a stop via the pinion flange.

The pinion spins much faster than the wheels. Pinion brakes are not advisable for trucks that are driven at speed. Fully loaded, a deuce would smoke a pinion brake very quickly. Maybe if you had a rotor on the input and output flange of each axle, you might start to have enough power...

"Typical" air brakes, as found on semis and even 5 ton MV, have a much better failsafe than ours. In that they fail on. Granted, your brakes trying to go full-lockup may not be ideal either, but its better than trying to use the engine or traffic to stop your rig. If I were bobbing my truck...

Yeah, I'm familiar with the dual brake master that came on some of the later trucks. I'd still like to see what can be done to move away from air-assist.

I wonder what the hydroboost master would do with the stock deuce drum brakes. I imagine it would have more boost than you would want due to it being used with disc brakes. Still curious what could be done with the stock brakes and a more modern split master with something-other-than-pneumatic...