Found a interesting brake job

walts garage-53 wrote:

Lee, how in the world did they get 2 1/4 shoes on the rear?? I can see 1 3/4 on the front. Are you sure you have a Hornet and not a Wasp with 1 3/4 front and rear? Walt.

Walt
You cought me before I corrected myself. I was so tired getting those rear drums off I wasn't thinking straight. I forgot to double check the width of the shoes. Being the first Hudson brake job things looks not quite right.

When I saw the pictures in the procedure manual the lining on the front, shows the front primary shoe being shorter than the seconday shoe which is nornal on most cars.
On mine the lining on both the primary shoe and secondary shoe are within 1/8 inch of each other.

That was the first time I've ever seen front shoe linings being almost the same length. That is why I looked at the pictures in the Proceedure Manual to see what was going on.

On the picture of lining for rear shoes, the picture shows the lining of primary and secondary shoes being the same lenght. My rear brakes the primary shoes are about 1 inch shorter than the secaondary shoes.

There lies my error. I'm eating crow tonight. Don't anybody pay any attention to my first post. Sorry for misleading everyone.

I would deleat the post if I new how.

Lee O'Dell

Ken U-Tx wrote:

You caught me before I could correct myself. By the time I got the rear drums off I was so tired I wasn't thinking straight.


Lee O'Dell

Ahh, tired from whacking away at the dogbone on the drum puller with a 2-1/2# hammer??? BAM BAm BAM BAm......pant pant pant.....BAM BAM BAM BAM......Gasp, weeeze....BAM BAM BAM BAm......pant pant pant, sigghhhh.....BAM BAM BAM BAM![/quote]

You got everything right Ken, execpt it was a 7-1/2# hammer. Felt like 15# by the end.
Me thinks you have a few BAM BAM,s under your belt too.