I had mentioned that I had my old shoes relined and not the rear drums, as they were cut at 35 before I took them to Ron.
I cooked my brand new Raybestos shoes after I adjusted the parking brake without checking the cables first. (New cables now installed!) When I took another spin around the neighborhood, the rear brakes were smoking hot. When I backed the adjusters off, the drums each had a high spot and were blue. Ron took a little more off to true them up and I had him install the thicker linings to the shoes. The relined shoes didn’t rock a bit when I test fitted them in the drums.
I put the brakes together yesterday, and what a difference. I had to take the adjustments down to nothing to get the drums on! The drums spin freely when in place now, I may just let the self adjusters do their magic.
I will replace my front shoes with the thicker linings when the snow is flying. The front drums are out to the max already. I also had the front Raybestos shoes previously arced by Ron, and the lower adjusters are now out about 3/8”. So the top of the shoes are having to travel quite a bit before engaging. Live and learn.
Anyone with questions should just call Ron, he is very forthcoming.
Al
To follow up on Allan's great new recommendation, a couple years ago I was going to toss out my F's old front drums with hot spots, machined out to their maximum spec. Instead I gave them to Andy M, and expect he still has them.
Allan called me and described this shop yesterday. He also picked up a set of relined drums from J&G yesterday.
After seeing this email from Allan today, I called and spoke with J&G's owner, Don, because I didn't see 'Chrysler' mentioned on his website. He said he can reline any brake drum, as long as it's not cracked. He's restored drums for at least a half dozen 300's, along with many other Chryslers and other cars.
I'll be adding J&G to our Vendor list in our Club's website under Classified Ads/Sources. !'m planning to have our Sources list updated by the end of this month, for future refernce.
With all the disk brake conversions and rear axle swaps there should be lots of drums laying around. I know I got the front brake parts and a rear axle from a 300F someone was working on and wanted to do the swaps.
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