Rear Brake Install

[Crash]

No word from RN yet. I started this with Les a few days ago. Any email I send from a few mail addresses here seems to get lost or blocked heading south over the border!

In any case I will be back in the shop on the weekend and will be looking at the old shoes to see what the difference is. Right now it is a little chilly out there and it takes a couple of hours to warm the place up. My first look suggests that the lining is aligned differently and this may be a clue as to why the drum won't align at the top of the backing plate. The contact points for the drum appear to be the top edge of the lining on the shoes. This may be where others have filed the lining down. Who knows really!

I will also be checking for contact between the adjuster and the post the spring is affixed to.

I really need to solve this so I can get the frame on wheels and move it into the shop so I can begin to get the bulkhead together and begin reassembly of everything else. I recently sourced a nice low mileage diesel engine complete with transmission, transfer case and an overdrive for a great price. I am hopeful that it might even be driveable this summer.

More over the weekend! Thanks for the tips so far.

C

[rickv100]

Crash,

I was reading the manual extract and the part about the brake shoe width caught my eye.

Perhaps they sent the wrong width shoes?

Rick

[bmohan55]

Thinking back to my brake job, I also had my drums turned, that might have given me the necessary clearance.

[Les Parker]

Have you tried one of your spare hubs with the new brake drums and shoes?
It seems like a compatability issue.
We have sold many sets of the Proline brake shoes with no issue of hub/shoe/drum fitment.
Have you tried marking the outer edge of the shoe with some engineers blue (or similar) and see if it leaves a mark on the inside of the drum after fit/remove?

[TJR]

Have you tried one of your spare hubs with the new brake drums and shoes?
It seems like a compatability issue.
We have sold many sets of the Proline brake shoes with no issue of hub/shoe/drum fitment.
Have you tried marking the outer edge of the shoe with some engineers blue (or similar) and see if it leaves a mark on the inside of the drum after fit/remove?

Les is right.. Even a bit of grease or chalk could point you to where the interference is. If you don't have dial calipers and all, I 'd grab a tape measure , a sqaure and some wood pieces to use a depth gages and then and compare the new vs old. It looks like your off by enough for those tools to be precise enough.

..Talbot

[jac04]

Some more pic's
Shoes installed

I know it's been a while, but did you ever figure this out?

If not, your top spring is on the wrong side of the adjuster cam. That will cause problems for sure.