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| | | | Joined: Jan 2009 Posts: 256 'Bolter | | 'Bolter Joined: Jan 2009 Posts: 256 | I'm at wits end with this and need a second opinion.
For the past few years by '53 3600 has had horrible front brake screeching, to the point where I don't want to drive it as its embarrassing and terrible to listen to. I've replaced the drums(Raybestos 2008R) and shoes(Napa FLT FT310), new springs, and made sure that everything was greased. It has a dual master cylinder conversion, I even replaced the master thinking that maybe it was sticking internally and causing the shoes to drag.
Nothing has worked. If I clean the brake dust and scruff the drums I can get ~10 miles of quiet driving before it starts acting up again. Any thoughts? I must be so far into the weeds that I'm overlooking the obvious. | | | | | Joined: Feb 2004 Posts: 29,829 Kettle Custodian (pot stirrer) | | Kettle Custodian (pot stirrer) Joined: Feb 2004 Posts: 29,829 | Lots of older brake drums had a long coil spring resembling the one used to close a screen door wrapped tightly around the drum. It was there to dampen out the harmonics caused by vibrations when the brakes were applied. It's a low tech solution, but it works pretty well.
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: Feb 2004 Posts: 29,829 Kettle Custodian (pot stirrer) | | Kettle Custodian (pot stirrer) Joined: Feb 2004 Posts: 29,829 | If a new drum doesn't have a groove just inboard of the reinforcing rib at the open side for the spring to fit into, it's possible to create one with a die grinder and a flame-shaped carbide burr by mounting the drum on a front spindle and slowly spinning the drum by hand against the burr. Wear safety glasses and gloves- - - -those shards of cast iron coming off the burr are sharp! It doesn't take much of a groove- - - -maybe 1/4" wide and 1/8" deep.
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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