Crazy Parking Brake on a Deuce and a Half 

Thanks for stopping by Donald.

Have you inspected the shoes? When a parking brake is left on while driving, the heat usually causes the linings to crack and separate from the backing plate. On a passenger car or truck, the parking brake does function as an emergency brake. It's incredibly weak, but at least it's something. Down shifting and using the parking brake can slow you down without having to ram something. You very well may find that only a small piece of friction material is left on those shoes, or that none is left at all. It may hold the vehicle from rolling, but it won't be grabby enough on a very steep hill or in an emergency. And to be honest, brakes should be taken apart and be cleaned/lubed/adjusted every 2 or 3 years regardless just to make sure everything is free and wears evenly. As a professional auto tech, I saw countless brakes which would have lasted longer if they got a little TLC midway through their life. I mean, the inner pad would be to rivets while the outer pad had 3/8ths left on it, and the inner pad had destroyed the rotor. A mid-life CLA service would have kept that wear even. :/

Had a GMC Topkick like that as well, that had hydraulic brakes as its normal system. Always tested it on a hill once a week or so to make sure it was adjusted. Even then I would chock it when parking on hills just because I didn't fully trust it compared to the air brakes on some of the other trucks.

@mannys9130 yeah I checked the shoes and they look a little glazed and worn down but I’m sure they are the original shoes in there but my deuce is just used strictly on my farm and always parked in gear with the wheels blocked so I’m not too concerned. But I work as a heavy equipment mechanic for the past 10 years and funny that some of the 100ton haul trucks we have only have a 3/8s bolt that holds the parking brake so if you loose brakes you also loose steering and that 3/8s bolt sheers off moving over 5mph so your basically screwed

@mandurath- that’s exactly how my 79 f600 dump truck was

Done the same thing as well on my deuce

Yep, but as long as it still works it's way down on my list. I should do an adjustment video at some point.

That's Awesome! Thank you!

Interesting. Thanks for coming back.

DEUCE AND GUNS No prob. Love the channel

Vaporlock? Not with fuel injection...

Some of us live were there is high hills and mountains. When driving downhill and you apply brakes often since there is a 90 degree turn at the bottom and you really need to control speed. Since brake fluid will boil and enter the vapor state of fluids it will result in no brake since you can´t compress vapor. Then you will drive off the cliff because of no brakes. Fuel injection or not

some Vietnam vets told me they slept under the trucks and on top of the cab roof too

I've got that grip on one of my lowers which was also from PSA. It's one of my nicer feeling grips and is WAY better than my sanded down A2 grip. I just ordered one of those grip screw trigger adjusters from Jo Bob to play with. No idea if it'll work but we'll see. Thanks for the post.

@@deuceandguns Hey BC. I have used the grip screw trigger adjuster and it really does work if you have standard trigger with that little bit of creep in it. I would test it and see if you like it. Then put the Removable Blue Loc Tite thread locker on it and reinstall it.

Mileage with a deuce is complicated. It can get anything between 5-16 mpg and this is one of the future videos I want to make at some point.

I understand I work in a quarry around big dump trucks some days it's 100 gallons to fill them up others it's 150 gallons. It all depends on the load they are hauling.

I never measured it but for its size, it stops pretty good

Yes, kinda. The Deuce has a full on hand throttle that'll let you set the idle all the way to full throttle. This is intended to be part of the winch control but it's also used to keep the engine at 1,000ish rpm for warmup/idle.

I see. I've just found the video where you talked about it briefly as well. Thanks.