Its infectious

[Phil Waterman]

Hi Tony

"The thrid picture decisively shows what these front brake shoes look like. Certainly not conventional Chev, but exactly what is on the front of this truck.
The long and short of it is I'm stoked to have found out it is all authentic Chev in the rarer body weight.....but we are still no closer to finding a pair of brake shoes for it."

I think the problem you are running into is one that drove me crazy 30 years ago when I started working on my HUP which of course is Chevrolet I could not find front brake or the brake design or parts in any old commercial chevy parts catalog. The reason is simple they are FORD brakes I only discovered this when I cleaned the brakes and found the little FORD logo stamped on the shoes.

It turns out that most if not all the front brakes on 4x4 Chevy CMPs use the FORD design as well as many of the rear brakes being FORD as well. This peculiarity has been discussed before on MLU I'll do a back search and see if I can figure out how to post the links to the past threads.

Cheers Phil