Well I mentioned this about a month ago and let it go since I had bigger
fish to fry. How ever I am tr ying to get the drums on my rear axles and am
hating it. I think Ihave surmised the problem and am wondering if anyone
else could back me up on this. The Shoes I bought were a set of relined
shoes from NAPA. I tried them to find out that their remanufacturer had
lined the entire face of the shoe, while they should leave the one edge set
back about 1 inch. I figured this was the problem so a few minutes later
with the coping saw and chisel they are fixed. I find they are still too
big. I can now get the drum on but it is so tight it will not turn (ok I
had some help from a hand sledge getting it on) Now I can only surmise that
the lining they used was too thick for the application. According to my
inept measuring ability the pad is .15 inches thick. Has anyone ever had
this type of problem before?
I guess I will have to take the shoes back to Napa, it will be interesting
to see if they will take them back after I hacked on them. I am really
getting tired of doing the same brake job twenty times. And yes the shoes
are in the correct opposing orientation.
Patrick Bowen
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