C8 progress in Texas

[Phil Waterman]

Hi Dave

Would be interested in the source for new Chevy parts like that. As to posting link. Try high lighting the URL address by drag and right click with mouse once highlighted hold the Ctrl key down and hit C then you should be able to paste Ctrl V the Url into the body of a post once it is visible in your post hit the space bar and the Url should be highlighted in blue when you hit preview if so then hit post.

Once you gave me the name though I found it http://www.bowtiebits.com/index.cfm Good looking web page will have to explore.

http://www.bowtiebits.com/store/stor..._Category_ID=4

If you order one please let us know how it works.

[RHClarke]

Originally Posted by Phil Waterman

Hi Dave

http://www.bowtiebits.com/index.cfm Good looking web page will have to explore.
http://www.bowtiebits.com/store/stor..._Category_ID=4 If you order one please let us know how it works.

Very interesting site! There are door hinges that "look" "HUPish". See
http://www.bowtiebits.com/store/stor..._Category_ID=6
I will be calling for the dimensions with fingers crossed...

[David DeWeese]

Hi,
Finally sorted out my front brakes this weekend. Someone had apparently installed a pre-war Chev front truck axle with post-'54 car brake backing plates on the C8.
Got around it by installing 1960 truck six-lug hubs and brake shoes, 1946 wheel bearings, races and seals, '55 wheel cylinders and 1990 Chev 4x4 drums,(same drums as the rear).
Sounds extreme, but it did solve the problem, and gave me the much better brakes I needed to match the ones on the late model rear axle.

Had a very depressing moment when I found that one of my two wheel adapters was damaged beyond use. The stud holes were worn completely through, and the lug nuts would literally fall through three of the holes.
Will have to weld up the holes and have the stud holes re-drilled and tapered to fit the lug nuts......

Thanks, David

[Mike K]

Originally Posted by David DeWeese

Hi,
. Someone had apparently installed a pre-war Chev front truck axle to fit the lug nuts......

Thanks, David

Hi David

The original C8 front axle is a standard civilian 1940 Chev. truck axle .... the part numbers match in the C8 parts book and the civilian parts book ... No. 365291

Mike

[David DeWeese]

Thanks Mike for the part number,
Will check the axle for casting numbers today to see if it is the correct one for the truck.
What threw me is that I bought a set of used drums and backing plates for an early '40's Chev truck and the didn't fit the spindles I have. Spindles were way too short.
Maybe someone has replaced them. Certainly wouldn't surprise me at this point......
Read somewhere that the C8 used a three ton axle with the smaller brakes adapted to it.
Thanks, David

[David DeWeese]

It is time to start installing wheels on the C8.
Have four original 13" wheels,(no tires yet), and four aftermarket 15" wheels that both fit the WD bolt pattern, but only two wheel adapters for them.
Sadly, the two other wheel adapters I hoped to use on the front axle never came around.
A friend who works with a high pressure water-jet cutter said it would be no problem to cut the steel stock to make two more adapters. I would just need to have them machined for the wheel studs.
Is there a source for the 8cwt wheel studs, lug nuts and tapered washers used on the original adapters, and are these the same type as used on the larger CMP's?
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks, David

[Paul Singleton]

Hello David,

I have a C-8 parts book and a C-15 parts book. The part numbers in both books are the same:

#1798450 Bolt wheel hub right

#1798451 Bolt wheel hub left

#1798510 (C019T 1120) Nut, wheel locking right

#1798511 (C019T 1121) Nut, wheel locking left

It also lists the wheel adapters

#1798762 Adapter rear axle shaft right Superseded by #5807126

#1798761 Adapter rear axle shaft left Superseded by #5807127