Re: Brake blues!

YUP, it will matter! Drums out of balance now, you will have a vibration. Think if a small wheel weight on your rim makes a big difference just think what a chunk from your drum will do. Sounds like their is a ridge on the outer edge of your drum. You have to back your shoes off to get the drum off or rip the brake hold down hardware off the backing plate. Do you have single or dual wheel cylinders? Singles have a slot at the bottom about 6 o'clock on the backing plate duals have two eccentric adjusters at about 3 & 9 o'clock. Your going to have to back them off no matter to get your drums off.

Herb

1956 Plymouth Belvedere 361 4-Sale

1959 Coronet 326 Poly

1961 Belvedere Custom Suburban Wagon 318 Poly

1961 Dodge Dart Pioneer Wagon 318 Poly

1963 Fury 2D/HT 7.0L

1963 Sport Fury Convertible 361

1970 Chrysler 300 Hurst 440

1979 Dodge Aspen R/T Sport Wagon 360

1999 Durango SLT 5.9L

2008 SRT-8 Magnum 6.1L

St. Louis, MO.

http://1962to1965mopar.ornocar.com/mmo42009.html

http://www.1962to1965mopar.ornocar.com/mmo22012.html

-------Original Message-------

From: Jacob Fox

Date: 2/9/2012 11:31:26 AM

To: 1962 to 1965 Mopar

Subject: Brake blues!

I tried removing the driver side brake drum today. Man, it spun fine and I went to pull it off and nothing. Then it wouldn't even spin. I couldnt get it off for nothing I even tried hammering it. It came about half way, seems like brake shoes were pressed against it. I've never done these before and i cant find the hole for the adjusting screw, nor do I have the space :-/. While hammering a piece of the drum broke off, not where the brake runs against just the outside part. You think it will matter?? I've included a pic.

____________________________________________________________

Sent from my iPhone

____________________________________________________________

Please address private mail -- mail of interest to only one person -- directly to that person. That is, send parts/car transactions and negotiations as well as other personal messages only to the intended recipient, not to the Clubhouse public address. This practice will protect your privacy, reduce the total volume of mail and fine tune the content signal to Mopar topic. Thanks!

1962 to 1965 Mopar Clubhouse Discussion Guidelines:

http://www.1962to1965mopar.ornocar.org/mletiq.html and http://www.1962to1965mopar.ornocar.com/general_disclaimer.html.

You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The 1962 to 1965 Mopar Mail List Clubhouse" group.

http://groups.google.com/group/1962to1965mopars?hl=en.