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[Dakar Timm]

Modified 1963 Dodge D100 Town Wagon 4-Speed
Hopefully the link works . In one of the photos of the undercarriage there is a photo of a splined shaft that is 90 degrees from the exhaust . There is a large band that appears to "clamp " onto a ring .
Is this a solenoid operated brake for a pto ?
I really hate not knowing something and figured you guys would be the ones to know
Thanks

 

[Big Bad Dad]

You sure that's not the driveshaft? Looks like an external emergency or parking brake. I had a 62 D100 pickup that had the parking brake on the trans tailshaft.

 

[69L48Z27]

Looks like a PTO and brake. Hard to tell with the way they took pictures. Need to pull back and get a better sense of where that is in the truck.

 

[Geetex]

The section of the exhaust that you see is the crossover pipe, it's running perpendicular to the drive line.

 

[Dakar Timm]

So this is the emergency brake ? Does the driveshaft silde back and forth on the splines as the trucks rear wheels slide up and down ?

 

[Big Bad Dad]

So this is the emergency brake ? Does the driveshaft silde back and forth on the splines as the trucks rear wheels slide up and down ?

That's what it looks like.

 

[Geetex]

So this is the emergency brake ? Does the driveshaft silde back and forth on the splines as the trucks rear wheels slide up and down ?

I can't answer much about the old trucks as I'm not too familiar with them. There is at least one member here that seems to be into the old trucks, I think it's @POMONAMISSEL maybe he can help answer some questions.

 

[moparwacko]

Here's what you're looking at:

Not sure why it's on a D100 model. But maybe a HD trans was installed from a D400.

 

[Dakar Timm]

Wow .. that diagram explains everything. Thank you one and all

 

[Cranky]

And I'm betting that trans has the granny low 1st gear. Had a 1 ton pickup in the 80's that had a similar looking trans (forget the number of it) but it didn't have the park/emergency brake on the drive line.

 

[moparwacko]

It's a NP435 variant (granny 1st) with brackets added to support the parking brake mechanism. I've seen them once in a while, but Uber rare. Usually they are on HD trucks, and also try to find one on a W series as they are transfer case mounted.

 

[POMONAMISSEL]

just like my 61 cd200 has

 

[POMONAMISSEL]

np540 5spd out of a 57 d500