<VV> Brake problem fixed and new brakes

[Dale Dewald]

Hello Mark,

What did you do about the drums?  Where they replaced as part of the new 
hardware from The Source?

Dale Dewald
Hnacock, MI

At 22:18 6/03/2008 -0400, Mark Edmonds wrote:
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>I had put new shoes on in 2006 when I first put the car on the road, and I
>replaced the wheel cylinders in spring 2007.  This past winter I decided to
>replace the shoes with Kevlar shoes, replace the hardware and have the drums
>turned.
>
>I found that three of the drums would be out of specs if turned again, and
>the front left drum was already out of specs.  In looking at the shoes and
>drum carefully it appears that because the radius of the drum was larger
>than the radius of the shoe, there was not uniform pressure on the entire
>shoe, thus under extreme conditions that wheel could not brake as hard as
>the others, plus the portion rubbing the hardest probably got hot quickly.
>My conclusion is that this is what caused my braking problem.
>
>  I installed new hardware and shoes from The Source.  I was going to get
>Street Kevlar but he is selling the Ultra Series Black and Gold Kevlar for
>only slightly more so I decided to get them.
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