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That price includes two shoes and the hardware kit containing the necessary springs, pins and bushings. The instructions below apply to one outboard-drum wheel end, fitted with quick-change brakes.
When rust creeps in between the brake lining and shoe table, it can cause the lining to fracture.
Linings are attached to the brake shoe either by riveting or bonding. Riveted attachment is simpler, but usable lining depth depends upon the depth of rivet-head countersink.
Shopping for brake shoes can be as challenging as shopping for a camshaft. Mustangs were fitted with bonded brake linings from the factory. Summit Racing offers the choice of bonded, riveted, semi ...
Check out this 1966 buick GS and it's installation of new drum brake system, to increase it's stopping power and it's stopping distance, in Car Craft Magazine.
Brake linings are a curious commodity. Intense competition keeps prices in line, but you may never be quite sure what you’re getting in performance unless you stick with a product and supplier you ...
Meritor added two innovations to its line of remanufactured aftermarket brake products to improve brake shoe life and to standardize fleet lining options with new reduced stopping distance rules ...
This chart clearly identifies heavy-duty brakes in sizes 12.5" to 20". Below each shoe is a listing of linings and hardware kits for that shoe.
Oscar Eskuche, Brakes and Brake-Linings from a Service Viewpoint, SAE Transactions, Vol. 24 (1929), pp. 364-365 ...