Re: 1956 Senior Front Brake Shoes

Posted by Joel Ray On 2011/4/3 20:00:27

Randy, I drilled out the rivets on my old shoes and the linings came off intact. There was no breakage on any of the 4 shoes. I did this outside and put them into a plastic bag and taped it shut. The new original Packard Marshall linings rivet on easily with no airborn flakes of anything flying about. Just buy a brake riveting tool and do it yourself in about an hour. However if someone "bonded" linings on your spare set of shoes, then you may have asbesoes problems. Remember Packard never supplied bonded shoes, maybe it was for a reason.