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KULTULZ · 02-09-2020, 03:34 PM

IMO ...

You need to research Kevlar linings. They take your shoe tables and add the linings.

The problem with adding self adjusters to an early car is that the top shoe anchor seems to be too short to accept both retracting springs and the cable eye. As for hand brake, once the rear shoes are worn in and at optimum adjustment, you tighten the cables to take-up slack without interfering with normal operation.

Drums have to be within spec as if over the wear limit they will expand from heat much more quickly. And of course good hydraulics.

02-09-2020, 03:34 PM	#2
KULTULZ Senior Member Join Date: Aug 2012 Location: IN A 'GALAXIE' FAR FAR AWAY Posts: 6,485	Re: New Brake Shoes IMO ... You need to research Kevlar linings. They take your shoe tables and add the linings. The problem with adding self adjusters to an early car is that the top shoe anchor seems to be too short to accept both retracting springs and the cable eye. As for hand brake, once the rear shoes are worn in and at optimum adjustment, you tighten the cables to take-up slack without interfering with normal operation. Drums have to be within spec as if over the wear limit they will expand from heat much more quickly. And of course good hydraulics. __________________ ***** We should have a contest. The player has to start at the very last post of a thread & then try to guess what the OP's original question was about ...