Re: [Chrysler300] Oh no! Whats happened !

[Mike <moparmike@xxxx>]

Owen,
I used to work for a guy who ran a fleet of big rigs, and we used to 
salvage drive axel hubs that had had the wheel bearing races come loose.He 
would build up the bearing mounting surface with a torch& brass rod, take 
take it down to the local machine shop to have the holes turned out to the 
right diameter.Sometimes the heating process would actually shrink the 
hole, so that most of the brass material would end up on the floor under 
the lathe.I'm sure this would cost some bucks, I don't know how hard '57 
drums are to find these days.Perhaps you could have them machined for a 
pressed-in steel sleeve that could be bored to suit the bearing races.I 
guess it all boils down to what you want to spend.

Mike

At 06:27 PM 10/1/01 +1200, Owen & Jo Grigg wrote:
> Hi all
> I just got my front brake drums for my '57 C back from getting coated in 
> high temp semi black. Previously they had been lightly machined (very 
> little taken off to clean them up) and the shoes arced to the drums etc. 
> Now I go to install my wheel bearing cones, and on one drum they just 
> about push in by hand and rattle around like false teeth in the housing 
> when fully installed, both inner and outer on the one side! Tried other 
> cones to make sure, it's definitely the drum.
> Could they have distorted the drum,heating it to put this high temp 
> coating.......please, please, please tell me this hasn't happened, they 
> were perfect drums :-(
>
> Owen
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