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Posted By: Trish Davis on 07/02/11 04:31pm

whiteknight001 wrote:

Trish Davis wrote:

Leaks first, nerfherder. Leaks are the first and always fixes on a rig.

This is the succinct witty goodness I've missed.

Still too fat to tap dance...

Mark "whiteknight001"

Indeed, it is, my dear Mark.

Oh.
I thought that read "too fat to lap dance."

Silly me.

Posted By: Trish Davis on 07/02/11 04:37pm

ALnCORY wrote:

Yeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!!!!!!!!! Trish is back.... my only question is will you still be able to wear your cool boots when you're all healed up?

Elton John once wrote a song about my return... 30 years before I lost my Travco brakes.
My god, I was in a "B" of a mood that day.

Yep, I can wear my leopard print work boots. They don't look quite so good with the cane.
I wore the Chanel work boots out 2 years ago. Sad.

Posted By: Trish Davis on 07/02/11 04:42pm

Leeann wrote:

Life is good [emoticon]

I have the Bendix medium and heavy duty catalogs, which don't mention the RM300, and the light duty catalog, which doesn't mention the boosters. Duh.

Leeann--
Check the Yahoo Travco group for today's messages.
Bill from Cleveland has a full brake set-up for sale.

Alretta Truck & Brake carries new boosters.
Or the NAPA BSP catalog might list them.

Posted By: Leeann on 07/02/11 06:13pm

I got a reman Cardone from my local parts house. When I find the receipt (or get the energy to go out to the RV and write it down from the box), I'll get the part number. It's a 54- something.

I had the Dodge p/n and Griff got me the Carquest p/n that included the master cylinder (they don't do that any more), but both numbers crossed to the same bare booster.

'73 Concord 20' Class A w/Dodge 440 - see profile for photo

Posted By: Griff in Fairbanks on 07/02/11 06:42pm

Leeann wrote:

Let me guess ... 54-73143.

(I shoulda read the right hand -- PB w/o Master Cyl. -- column instead of the left hand -- PB w/Master Cyl. -- column.)

There's a huge stack (several shelves) of old and extra catalogs in back at work and the boss said I could take any I wanted ... been going through them and grabbing the ones that have listings for Dodge motorhome ... stack at home is now about a foot high.

1970 Explorer Class A on a 1969 Dodge M300 chassis with 318 cu. in. (split year)
1972 Executive Class A on a Dodge M375 chassis with 413 cu. in.
1973 Explorer Class A on a Dodge RM350 (R4) chassis with 318 engine & tranny from 1970 Explorer Class A

Posted By: Leeann on 07/02/11 06:45pm

That sounds right. I'm positive it had the 73 in it because that's the year of the motorhome... [emoticon]

Posted By: Griff in Fairbanks on 07/02/11 07:01pm

BTW - some of you may recall, a couple of years ago, I went through several months of intense research trying to find replacement calipers for the '73 RM350 chassis that I'm going with for MLP ... and finally found them, on the shelves, in regular stock, at the local NAPA.

Back then, I had my buddy check to see if they sold very often and whether they were part of the store's regular stock. They didn't sell that often and were part of regular stock so I put off getting them ...

About six to eight weeks ago, the store caught fire and burned up. With all the paint, lubricants, chemicals, etc. in the store, they declared it a hazmat site and everything in the store -- parts, tools, and my calipers -- is going to the hazmat depot ... absolutely NO salvage.

So, when I started my new job, the first thing I looked into was whether I could get them through CarQuest and finally found a listing for the Kelsey Hayes 91133 dual piston calipers ... with six of each (right and left) in Portland.

Interestingly, the listing doesn't show those calipers in use until 1977, which leads me to believe the front axle I have is a retrofit. (I back matched numbers two different ways to make sure they're the right calipers.) This might also explain why I had so much problems earlier because all the listings for earlier models (including the 1973) all show single piston calipers.

Also found a CarQuest listing for the dual frame-mounted brake boosters but those will have to be ordered through work direct from the rebuilder. (And, I may have to send mine in to be rebuilt.)

Posted By: Leeann on 07/02/11 07:31pm

There is a core on mine - my parts guys don't charge me for it unless I tell them I'm not turning it in. So I need to get that booster installed and the core back to them.

Posted By: Griff in Fairbanks on 07/02/11 07:38pm

Leeann wrote:

There is a core on mine - my parts guys don't charge me for it unless I tell them I'm not turning it in. So I need to get that booster installed and the core back to them.

Good, that'll mean there's another rebuilt one somewhere in the supply channels, for the next person who needs one.

Posted By: Leeann on 07/02/11 07:51pm

Exactly. Whether it's rebuildable or not, I don't know. It's still half-covered in undercoating.

Gotta finish my Safari tomorrow then we can play with the booster Monday.

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