I was driving MY '58 to my storage facility to remove the Alaskan yeterday when I thought I had broke a ball joint in the steering, the thing made a horrible "clunk" sound and about pulled me off the road. When I got stopped and looked the whole thing over I could not see anything wrong, but I knew something was.

I got the truck home and pulled the wheels off, the brake lining on one side was in pieces and barely attached on the other side.  I did these only two years ago and didn't think anything wrong with bonded linings, I've used them on my sports cars for years, but this was before I put a 1900 lb camper on the back. You could see how hot they had got with the extra load, I'm not the kinda guy that rides his brakes and I always use low gears when descending a hill, but it is rivited linings on this truck from now on.

I thank God that this happened two blocks from my house and not coming down from Mineral King. (a very steep narrow two lane road from 9,000' for those who don't know  )

   God Bless.   Tim                           http://yblockguy.com/

350ci Y-Block FED "Elwood", 301ci Y-Block Unibody LSR "Jake", 312ci Y-Block '58 F-100, 338ci Y-Block powered Model A Tudor

tim@yblockguy.com  Visalia, California    Just west of the Sequoias