My Vauxhall Combo van needs new disks, pads and shoes. I got them via
the parts guy at work for

 

I hate everything to do with drum brakes. They look like the most complicated thing since the Subaru Impreza engine.

The drums on my Fiesta I had as a teenager (thankfully the only car I've owned with the horrid things on) used to make the car fishtail at 30mph.

 

Fitted them the wrong way round?

 

Didn't wind the automatic handbrake adjuster back to its start position.

Oh well first thing in the morning.


Russ.

 

D'you know, I cannot remember HTF the auto adjusters work (other than that they don't) and there's leading & trailing shoes.

They always were a PIA.

 

going to be fitting drum brakes to the race '63 Corvette Stingray i look after as it was never produced with discs for that year .

the powers that be are clamping down on cheat cars so they have to be to homolagation spec so the vented discs will be removed

drums are military spec cryogenically treated so they are denser to dissipate the heat better. there will be big "elephants ears" to direct cold air into the brakes and inside the brakes will be fans to move the air around (ZO6 had these fans and ducts in period )

the 400hp FIA engine i built last year is holding up well, i just hope the brakes will do the same (as long as the adjusters are working properly)

 

Are you allowed to cut diagonal grooves in the shoes?

Russ.

 

they are blocks anyway, i'll get pictures up tomorrow of the parts to be fitted

 

finned drums are in the pipeline when they have been made

should make it fun to slow down a 1400kg car

 

Wow they look serious stuff


Adjusted the handbrake adjuster right back this aft but in my rush
to escape the rain I knocked out one of the pistons in the slave
cylinder.
Bollocks, had to bleed the circuit in the rain on Christmas eve

Russ.