Posted by dmac on 4/8/2009, 12:35 pm, in reply to "Falcon Wagon Front Brake Drums"
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: I was in the process of replacing the
: front brake shoes on my 1962 Falcon
: Wagon and found that the left front
: drum is cracked. The crack extends
: along the rim of the drum and does
: not extend into the area where the
: shoes contact the drum. On my car,
: the drum and hub are all one
: assembly and come off together. I
: went down to the NAPA store to buy
: an new pair of drums and found that
: the only thing that they could find
: were drums that did not come with
: the hubs. I checked the AutoKrafters
: web site and found the same thing.
: Can someone tell me how I would go
: about removing and installing the
: new drums to the hubs? Does this
: require a press?
:
: Also, I purchased a set of brake
: SHOES from Advance Auto Parts and
: put them on. The seemed to be pretty
: tight to the drums, even when I
: screwed the adjuster in all the way.
: When I took it out for a test drive,
: the screeching noise that they made
: was outrageous! It sounded like what
: you see in the movies when an
: airplane lands with the wheels up
: and scrapes along on its belly. The
: sound also seems to be coming from
: the same wheel that has the cracked
: drum, so I don't know if there is a
: connection. I wasn't really
: impressed with the new brake
: shoes...they looked kind of shoddy.
: Does anyone know of a good brand of
: brake shoes that are still being
: manufactured?
:
: Thanks in advance.
:
correction the wagons rear lining is the same as the front 2.25in.i use the cheepest linings on my drum brake falcon and they seem to work the best.
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