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Posts: 640
Location: Falcon, CO | Hi All, Earlier this year, I replaced the wheel cylinders of the front brakes on a friend's '56 Fury. Then I installed new shoes from Kanter, followed by new outer tie rods and shocks. John Fowlie provided me with a set of drums, I cleaned them up and had them turned. Then the owner had the Fury flatbedded to his favorite front alingment shop. When he drove the car home, about 40 miles, he found that the car would pull to the right and quickly to the left, usaully at more than 35 MPH and above. Yesterday, I set the shoe clearance according to the factory '56 manual, but the brakes still do a two sided pull. I removed the drums and checked everything, the only problem I found was some polishing of the shoe material. I hope that we have specialists on ForwardLook who know how to work on these brakes. I know that Plymouth used this brake systm going back to 1946; the oldest Plymouth brakes before the Fury that I worked on was on my '58 Belvedere. I'll listen to all comments and suggestions. |
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Posts: 2003
Location: Branson, MO | Tony after proper adjustment, get the car up to about 35 to 40 mph and apply the brakes gently with a lot of room on a desolate road and drag the brakes while applying the brakes with a little more pressure as you are moving. The brakes will heat up and may “clean up” any moisture and other debris that may be imbedded in the linings. Keep doing this repeatedly and see if there is any improvement. If there is, keep doing this occasionally while normal driving when you get the opportunity. If it persist, replace the linings with new ones of good quality.
Just a suggestion but might help. |
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Posts: 3399
Location: Chestertown, NY ( near Lake George) | Best process when the drums are cut the shoes should be arc ground to maintain the full contact with the drums, if they were just cleaned up , say .010, shouldn't be an issue. |