<VV> Brake shoe length

[Chris C]

Actually got an overwelming response.


Small front.   Wide in the back.

The problem is the shoes that were on the car were not 'correct'



At 04:03 PM 6/12/2005, you wrote:
>Did you get an answer on your short & long brake shoes off line? I was 
>just trying to do a search for this very topic and could not find it in 
>the messages saved on my computer.
>
>Chris C wrote:
>>I got a set of brake shoes from a corvair vendor a couple years ago.
>>Finally putting them on a car.
>>First my technical question.
>>The orig shoes were the same length of material on each shoe of the 
>>pair.  These have a short shoe.  Which one goes to the front of the 
>>car.  I checked the service manual and all the pictures make it look like 
>>the shoes are the same length.
>>
>>Now the is this normal questions:
>>     The longer shoe is thicker than the short shoe.
>>     Also 1.5 pairs are narrower than the other 2.5 pairs is this 
>> normal.   By about an inch.
>>I put one set on of the long thick ones in the rear.  Had to force the 
>>drum on.  Drove it and it drove ok, but was enligtened that I should 
>>replace them in pairs.  Thats when I noticed the problem.
>>
>>Thanks to all.
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