I'd have no worries.

Don't you have enough road blocks without making them up?

 

I know why don't you take a air brake truck and remove all the actuation rods, then go drive toward a very large cliff. Then I would not have you interjecting in your off topic BS. Nobody cares to hear you anyhow. GO AWAY little boy.

 

Yes, lets all get back on topic here.
AHH!!! What was the topic anyway?

 

Wow. You really are an idiot.

 

I may purchase a 1960 C600. It has 20,000 miles on a rebuilt engine and we know the gentleman who owns this. I can pick this up for $1,200 and am planning on hauling bees. The only concern I have is the brake system. The idea of the loss of all brakes if one line brakes, is not a good though. I'd like to update it to a dual master cylinder. anyone know who this is done?

 

That might be a tall order on a C series.

The master cylinders for those are goofy, and you have to fill them through the rubber boot from the back side. I do not know if the last years of the C series had dual braking systems.

The standard hydraulic system uses a hydrovac booster, which is frame mounted. Various models of those exist, some with dual circuits iirc.

You would have to design, install and test on your own methinks.

 

FYI, the dual braking system was a option first then standard on the later years of the C series.


But boy are the hydraulic brake master cylinders goofy as mentioned!


And yes, those early single master cylinders are of a concern. One split hose and it is runaway time. There is no way on a fully loaded truck, on a hill at speed that the "parking" brake is going to do much. Of course there were larger parking brakes from the 800/900 series that might be retro fitted, and proper use and control of the speed will go a long ways to helping.


Think of it this way, normal old school trucking was to use the same gear, or one lower going DOWN the hill than going up the hill. Hard though to go down a hill at 15 or 20 mph in todays traffic. Modern drivers are not used to a very slow moving truck up hill, let alone down hill.


Not sure if you have ay steeper hills to surmount, nor what type of roads you will be transporting on, but with the either the straight 6 or the 292 (I am assuming it is stock) it is not going to be a speed demon in any case


David

 

Thanks to both of you for responding. I believe the current owner put a 390 in it. As far as steep hills, not much only Siskiyou Summit Grade or the shasta mountain grade heading up to Klamath Falls :-) and around home a %7 grade six miles long that we call the Lewiston grade. I suppose this is another argument for staying on the freeway and just going slow down hill. It would seem one could experiment with retro fitting another master cylinder.

 

Hello and welcome to FTE. My name is Greg and also a new member to FTE. I also own a 1966 N-600 and live in Northwest Indiana. If you can, post some pictures, I would love to see it. I have pics of mine on here as well. As you probably know by now, if you have any parts ID questions, Bill (AKA Numbers Dummy) is the go to guy here. He really knows these parts and part numbers inside and out. We are so fortunate to have him. Again, welcome and looking forward to further threads. Have a great day! Greg.