Good morning to all! I am new on this site so please bare with me. I pride myself on doing some upfront homework on a truck before I purchase one however this time I may have failed. Not having a bigger truck before, I purchase this old bucket truck without my proper homework and now I may have a real bastard. So here I am trying to make the best of it. This is a 1980 Mack MS200P with a Hi Ranger bucket lift. The lift, hydraulics, hoses, cables, etc. all seem to work fine. As far as the truck, it mostly works fine. Yes,it burns and throws a little oil but to be expected at this age. My concern is this...somewhere in the past years the rear back brake must have been too expensive to repair so someone just removed all the brake parts and soldered the brakes lines closed to that area. The other three wheels and brakes work fine. I'm thinking that because of all of this, the emergency brake does not work. I would at least like to get the emergency brake to work on the left wheel. Does anyone have a good site that I could look over to see how the emergency brake set up works and what I can check from here? Thank you
