Grinding away areas of any brake shoes (excluding the lining, of course) will render them useless as cores with most shops. It would seem that removing excess lining material correctly and having the shoes arced to fit the drums would be the best approach.
Paul W. -----Original Message----- From: Frederick Joslin <fljoslin@xxxxxxxx> To: mailing-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Wed, 28 Nov 2007 8:21 pm Subject: IML: drum brakesThere seems to have been several recent problems with adjusting drum brakes.
I just received the latest copy of Auto Restorer and in it there is a short letter addressing the issue of drum brakes being too tight.
The author has used the method of grinding down the slot in the brake shoe where the adjusters insert to bring the shoes in enough to get things to fit.
Each application would be different, but this seems to be a reasonable and safe method instead of removing some of the friction material. Comments?
Fred Joslin ________________________________________________________________________More new features than ever. Check out the new AOL Mail ! - http://o.aolcdn.com/cdn.webmail.aol.com/mailtour/aol/en-us/text.htm?ncid=aolcmp00050000000003
----------------- http://www.imperialclub.com ----------------- This message was sent to you by the Imperial Mailing List. Please reply to mailing-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx and your response will be shared with everyone. Private messages (and attachments) for the Administrators should be sent to iml.webmonster@xxxxxxxxx To UN-SUBSCRIBE, go to http://imperialclub.com/unsubscribe.htm