Re: Re-installing rear brake drums
Posted by ScottG On 2023/7/26 11:47:13
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Another problem that can occur with a tapered axle/hub is that the hub can sometimes seat TOO FAR onto the axle, due to having been run loose, heated with a torch, or some other reason.
This has been in the back of my mind as well. Over 70 years a lot of different people have been in and out of these brakes.
What I can't figure is, if this were to be the case, why were the brakes fine for so long? Maybe I'm thinking about it wrong, but with the force the hub seats onto the axle, I would think that, if the hub seated too deep onto the axle, the grinding would show up immediately at the time of reassembly. In my case, I bought the car and drove it without ever opening up the rear brakes for more than a year with no problems.
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