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| | | Forums66 Topics128,134 Posts1,056,403 Members48,441 | | Most Online14,466 Apr 26th, 2026 | | AD Chevy Trucks Over 6,000 pictures Brad Allen has an awesome collection of Chevrolet factory pictures that he has set up from film strips. Check them out!
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on the Internet for over 30 years! and not clogged down with Ads! Again, thanks! | | | | Joined: Feb 2004 Posts: 29,814 Kettle Custodian (pot stirrer) | | Kettle Custodian (pot stirrer) Joined: Feb 2004 Posts: 29,814 | More like a nightmare! Read their carefully crafted ads and you'll discover the only drums they're actually relining are very expensive aluminum ones that had a cast iron liner to begin with, such as the Pontiac Bonneville. I've yet to see anyone put a sleeve or other repair method in a cast iron brake drum and actually make it work. There's just not enough room to do it, and somebody would have to own a foundry and make several sizes of sleeves, machine them precisely, and then devise some way of pressing the thin-wall sleeve into a bored-out drum without getting it seriously out of balance, warping, or cracking it. Each relined drum would have to cost several hundred dollars just to recoup the parts and labor cost. Then there's the potential market- - - - -minuscule at best! Why do you think the brake manufacturers stopped making replacement drums for vehicles like the Chevy 3800 in the first place- - - - -shrinking demand, possibly? Jerry
"It is better to be silent and be thought a fool than to speak and eliminate all doubt!" - Abraham Lincoln Cringe and wail in fear, Eloi- - - - -we Morlocks are on the hunt! There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self. - Ernest Hemingway Love your enemies and drive 'em nuts!
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