#ProjectSportsRoof – Brake Shoes – The Measurements.

If you stopped by to see a video on measuring for brake shoes, you’ll have to read instead.  I was pretty frustrated at the time and my selection of verbiage would have been Rate R. Sometime a story is best told through pic only.

I’m not inventing something new, merely showing where I went sideways and what I should have done.

For the record, most you know, I went with what the all the parts books said were the proper size, 10 in x 2 in.   Again, I took a quick measurement and it looked to be 10 in.

Here is what I should have done.

Measure the back plate.	yeah….11 inches not 10!
Inside Diameter	I captured my mistake on camera – just wee bit off not 2″ but 1.75″.

These are the measurement I should have taken.

So the story dragged on with the ordering of shoes for a Ford Galaxy – they were huge  and finally finding the 11 in x 1.75 in from a 1973 Bronco.   That was it!! They were the right size….even brought the old shoe with me and matched them at the store. 

Insert huge sigh

I installed them…almost.  Here’s why that didn’t work.

Old shoe is on the top and it’s tapered.

Here is a closer look.

That little bit of taper was key to getting the brake shoe under the shoe retainer washer.

The width of the new brake shoe was too side and forced the washer (times referred to a shoe guide plate) too far out on the pin and left no room for both springs and the auto adjuster.

So my solution failed.  What’s next?  Maybe a different direction for #ProjectSportsRoof?

Thanks for checking back!!

Tim

#SR73