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| | | | Joined: Jan 2000 Posts: 2,074 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Jan 2000 Posts: 2,074 | Seen articles re. using a brake shoe that has improved stopping power vs standard off the shelf replacement. Don't want to go with discs as will interfere with stock artillery wheels. Understand that I need a shoe with coefficient of friction of .4 to .5??? Anyone know where to purchase? Thanks
Also, running '57 Chev pickup 'I' beam dropped 2", rear axle is a 66 Chevy pickup 6 lug.
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| | | | | Joined: Dec 2017 Posts: 1,652 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Dec 2017 Posts: 1,652 | Try Muscle Car Brakes. I have them on one of my vehicles and it made a big difference. I had new over the counter brand name shoes on, did not stop anywhere like it should have. The new non-asbestos organic compounds just aren't up to snuff I suppose. I installed the matrix ceramic shoes, broke them in, and now stops like it should. http://musclecarbrakes.com/
Mike
| | | | | Joined: Feb 2004 Posts: 29,865 Kettle Custodian (pot stirrer) | | Kettle Custodian (pot stirrer) Joined: Feb 2004 Posts: 29,865 | Just figure out how to increase the force of gravity in the San Joaquin Valley. Otherwise, all you'll be doing is making the skid marks longer. When I lived out there in Merced, California did seem to create more of a vacuum than the rest of the world!
Jerry
"It is better to be silent and be thought a fool than to speak and eliminate all doubt!" - Abraham Lincoln
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| | | | | Joined: Apr 2005 Posts: 2,832 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Apr 2005 Posts: 2,832 | They used to offer sintered iron brake shoes for drum brake cars. Two drawbacks, they ate up drums and on cold mornings you needed to drive several blocks in low gear with your left foot on the brake to heat them up or no stopping power. The metal chewing into the drum definitely gave more stopping power.
Evan
| | | | | Joined: Dec 2002 Posts: 3,445 Moderator - The Electrical Bay | | Moderator - The Electrical Bay Joined: Dec 2002 Posts: 3,445 | Make sure the pads are properly arc'd and making as much contact with the drums as possible.
Another quality post.
Real Trucks Rattle
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| | | | | Joined: Mar 2010 Posts: 10,299 Renaissance Man | | Renaissance Man Joined: Mar 2010 Posts: 10,299 | Buy new drums, new shoes, and springs and you will have all of the braking power that you need.
I have tried to save a nickle by using well worn drums and wait for the shoes to wear until they match the arc of the old drums with Huck brakes because the new Huck drums are expensive.
You have Bendix brakes. Your new drums are cheap.
Carl
1952 5-window - return to "as built" condition | 1950 3100 with a 235 and a T-5 transmission
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