It does rather sound like you got the wrong shoes. Perhaps the manufacturer
mixed up two similar cores.
I know one used to be able to ask for either riveted or glued shoes. I
suspect improvements in bonding technology have made rivets more or less
obsolete. Consider that glued shoes have more braking surface, and more
wearable depth, and also do not put deep grooves in the drum first thing
when they wear out.
on 9/8/03 8:09 AM, Bob D. at bobmgtd@insightbb.com wrote:
> My brakes are back in business. I put the old brake shoes back on (the ones
> with the extra thick linings), and now my handbrake kicks in right away, and
> my pedal is high and firm. After comparing the old and new parts, I believe
> the lack of handbrake had nothing to do with the ID of the brake drum, or
> the thickness of the linings. The new shoes are an eighth inch longer on one
> end. This was causing the cylinder to hold the shoe ends apart, instead of
> the handbrake lever (in the resting position). This left an eighth inch gap
> in the slot the lever goes in. It took a whole inch of cable pull to close
> this gap before the shoes would start to move. With the old shoes there is
> no gap, the shoes start to move as soon as you pull on the handbrake.
>
> So which shoes are right, the old or the new? They clearly don't have the
> same dimensions. My old shoes have markings indicating that they are
> original shoes that have been relined. Next time I buy brake shoes, I'm
> going to look for re-manufactured ones.
>
> BTW, what ever happened to rivets? I can remember buying just the linings,
> and riveting them to the old shoes. How long have manufactures been using
> glue?
>
> Bob Donahue (Still stuck in the '50s)
> Email - bobmgtd@insightbb.com
> 52 MGTD - NEMGTR #11470
> 71 MGB - NAMGBR #7-3336
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