[Healeys] 100 front brakes

[Tadeusz Malkiewicz]

John,

I have EXTREME trouble with inches and I do not have any idea who in the
name of the God came up with 11/16" and other peculiar measurements which
are a fraction of 16. This must have been some sort of punishment, at least
I take it so now :-)

However, I would notice if my shoes were over 1cm narrower than the drum :-)
So, yes, my shoes are 2 1/2".

I asked my machinist to make tips: 
______
______XXXX

Where the first bit is a cylinder and the XXXX is the extra length needed.
They would be then come on top of the tip and be mig welded. This will
increase the diameter by 2mm (just less than 3/32"), but this I hope will be
all right..

John and others, Many thanks for helping with the issue!

Best, Tadek



-----Original Message-----
From: John Harper [mailto:ah at jharper.demon.co.uk] 
Sent: Monday, September 20, 2010 12:11 PM
To: healeyguy at aol.com
Cc: healeys at autox.team.net; tadeusz.malkiewicz at plusnet.pl
Subject: Re: [Healeys] 100 front brakes


Tadek

My measurements more or less confirm Perry's

Except that the measurements for Unipart supercessions come out shorter
at

2 1/4" shoes 0.603  from face of shoe to post tip (15.32mm)
        [11/16" = 0.682"]
These  I noticed when fitted these only just engaged fully with the cam
with nothing to spare.

However stating the obvious can you confirm that you are fitting 2 1/4"
wide BN2 shoes?. If you were fitting 1 3/4" wide BN1 shoes this would
perhaps explain the difference.

Regards