Guess I must be lucky. This has never happened to me. I have driven my
Imperials over a combined total of 250,000 miles (in the 1980's). All of the
brake shoes that I have ever installed were freshly bonded, though.
Someone else posted that there were riveted linings available, but I have never
used those on the Imperials. I am certain that they were supposed to be bonded
when new.
Paul
In a message dated 6/15/2004 6:22:57 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
swampyankee@xxxxxxx writes:
>
>
> >Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2004 15:26:01 -0400
> >From: imperial59@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >Subject: Re: IML: Brake Shoes
> >
> >I would be leary of OEM brake shoes. The bonding agent would be very old
> and could fail at any time leaving you with an >undrivable vehicle. Even
> though the new material isn't quite as good as the asbestos stuff was it
> shouldn't come off the
> >backing plate.
>
> This used to happen to me with my '62 - the pad would shear off the shoe,
> and jam under the other pad. This basically immobilised the car until I
> applied a _lot_ of power in the opposite direction and it unjammed. This was
> back in the late '80s, and the hoes were readily availble (and money-back
> guranteed) from NAPA, so I just always carried an extra set of four. It only
> seemed to happen at low speeds (like under 20 mph), as at higher speeds if
> the pad broke loose it seemed like it would rattle around in the spinning
> drum too much to slip under the other shoe. I imagine it would be pretty
> nightmarish if it did happen at speed, though.
> -Kle.
> '69 Crown Southampton 4D
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