Rather than do that, why don't you take the unmachined (probably NOS?) drum
to a brake place and have them turn it to standard size (12.000?).
If you'd rather use the left drum, you can remove the left handed thread
studs and install right handed thread studs with a press - but this can be
tricky - be sure the press operator knows how to avoid warping the drum.
If your drums have threaded inserts, rather than studs, I suppose you can do
the same thing but I've no experience with that.
Leaving left handed threads on the right side of the car is inviting future
damage, unless you paint on a big sign warning mechanics about it. It also
theoretically means that your wheels may work loose, although I think that
danger is overstated, if the lug nuts are securely tightened to the torque
spec.
Dick Benjamin
----- Original Message -----
From: "Philippe Courant" <accf-club@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "Fwdlk" <L-FORWARDLOOK@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>; <mailing-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, April 14, 2003 6:52 AM
Subject: IML: grabbing brakes on my '57: problem solved
> Today i've remove the right front drum (i know it was the right wheel
> because i made some hard braking in my wet courtyard and the right wheel
> left some black rubber "stamps" ..). All was fine, no broken parts, no
> play on shoes, no leaking brake cylinders, no grease or fluid elsewhere.
> So i decide to install my spare left drum (the one with the 3 spring
> brackets but i remove them !). I test briefly the car: perfect braking ,
> no grabing, no wheel locks (except if i brake very hard) and no
> "out-of-round" feeling just before the car stops.
> When i have the two drums on ground, i measure internal diameter: the
> "culprit" drum is 12.008 inch diameter and the "new" is 11.98 inch.
> Seems that it wasn't ever turned.
>
> What do you think of installing a left on right side ? (according to
> thread studs). I've put some Loctite on 2 nuts ...
>
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> Philippe COURANT (Pau, France)- Webmaster des sites ACCF et C-I-F
> Imperial 1957 Crown convertible
> Buick 1996 Roadmaster wagon
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