My Dodge is 817**99 she was built according to card October 24th 1944. Yours is somewhat earlier then? Gordon has a list of numbers on the Dodge Forum. The vehicle looks a nice truck. Don't worry about brakes, they are quite straight forward, just do them by the book! The manual is available as a CD from Military Media, that has full instructions. The only thing that makes brakes awkward is the position of the master cylinder, under the sterring coluom. They were always designed to filled via a pressure bleeder. I use a modified Gunson. The fittings for the top of the cylinder were bought from the local plumbers merchants, an 8mm tube fitted and just pushed over the Gunson tube. No other hiden nastys I can think of. Ex Norwegian trucks are normally very sound, a lot of preventive maintience was done on them.