[LynnB]

If you think getting parts for your old Chevy is bad, try getting parts for a 49 Studebaker 2R16A. Studebaker? Why am I on a Chevy truck forum, you ask? My truck has a "more modern" (i.e. 1971) engine and trans out of a Chevy grain truck.

Years ago, getting original brake shoes relined was super easy. It is a dying art. There is ONE place left in the OKC metro that does it. When I did brakes on my truck I took the shoes to that one place and had them relined. I rebuilt the wheel cylinders (you can't find them).

They lasted a couple years and started leaking. So, I removed them and sent to the White Post Restoration to be brass sleeved. A little expensive, but it is a forever fix. Brakes are still working fine.