<VV> Brake Lining Separation

[corvair at mts.net]

'67 Firebird in about '83, just installed new front brakes, touched the pedal to slow for a corner, one front wheel locked up and car stopped sideways across the corner.

Took it apart and one shoe came out with no lining left on it.

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Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2007 06:47:14 -0700 (PDT)
From: "P.H. Raker" <n556p at yahoo.com>
Subject: <VV> Brake Lining Separation
To: Virtual Vairs <virtualvairs at corvair.org>
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> Tony Underwood wrote:
>
>> 
>> Anyone else have a shoe shed its lining?    A relatively fresh shoe 
>>and not something 20+ years old?
>> 
>> tony..    
>
> Yep, back in 1962 I had a used 56 VW with 100K or so on it. No idea 
> how new the brake shoes were---they may well have been OEM. 
>

Hello, all,
     I had a similar experience just 5 years ago while driving my '87
Honda CRX-Si down I-35 in downtown Minneapolis.  I just touched the
brake pedal to slow a bit in traffic when there was a horible and very
loud noise from the LR corner of the car.  There was no warning at
all!!  I managed to limp to a nearby shop where we found that the
lining had separated from one shoe plate  and went spinning around
inside the drum wiping out the other innards of that brake.  Those
shoes had been replaced about 2 years earlier, so were pretty new.
      Just goes to show that it can happen to a relatively new car too,
even one with as good a reliability reputation as a Honda.

Phil Raker
'65 Corsa 140-4