<VV> Brake problem fixed and new brakes

[Mark Edmonds]

I got new drums locally.  A long time parts store had two on the shelf and
located two - made in Canada instead of China.  Last ones - anything in
future will be from China.
ME

-----Original Message-----
From: virtualvairs-bounces at corvair.org
[mailto:virtualvairs-bounces at corvair.org] On Behalf Of Dale Dewald
Sent: Wednesday, June 04, 2008 9:22 AM
To: virtualvairs at corvair.org
Subject: Re: <VV> Brake problem fixed and new brakes

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:
 >>>snip<<<
>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.
 >>>snip<<<

 _______________________________________________
This message was sent by the VirtualVairs mailing list, all copyrights are
the property
of the writer, please attribute properly. For help,
mailto:vv-help at corvair.org
This list sponsored by the Corvair Society of America,
http://www.corvair.org/
Post messages to: VirtualVairs at corvair.org
Change your options: http://www.vv.corvair.org/mailman/options/virtualvairs 
 _______________________________________________