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Re: 1804-5-7-8 Rear Brake Drums
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JW, some clever wag drilled out the rivets on my '54 Convertible's drums and it's a mixed bag. Although it's easier to access the rear brake shoes it's impossible to precisely align the drums to the hubs concentrically. This is because the bolt holes in the drums are larger in diameter than the lug bolts. This leaves the drums slightly eccentric with respect to the hubs and the brake shoes have to be adjusted to not contact the drums as they revolve. Even with the shoes adjusted to compensate for the eccentricity a slight pulsation is felt from the rear brakes on light application. All in all I'd rather have the drums secured concentrically to the hubs.

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Posted on: 2020/2/23 0:11
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Re: 1804-5-7-8 Rear Brake Drums
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Tom Lester had a similar problem on a car with irreplaceable drums. He had new ones turned out of blocks of steel and they worked great. Thus, the problem is not insurmountable given cash and a good machinist.

Posted on: 2020/2/23 8:37
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Re: 1804-5-7-8 Rear Brake Drums
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Quote:

Don Shields wrote:
JW, some clever wag drilled out the rivets on my '54 Convertible's drums and it's a mixed bag. Although it's easier to access the rear brake shoes it's impossible to precisely align the drums to the hubs concentrically. This is because the bolt holes in the drums are larger in diameter than the lug bolts. This leaves the drums slightly eccentric with respect to the hubs and the brake shoes have to be adjusted to not contact the drums as they revolve. Even with the shoes adjusted to compensate for the eccentricity a slight pulsation is felt from the rear brakes on light application. All in all I'd rather have the drums secured concentrically to the drums.


Don, thanks for the reply and the photo. Concentric alignment of the drums on the hubs would be a must for proper functioning brakes. Maybe some sleeves in the drum holes would fix the problem. Interesting to see that I am not the only one thinking about this. Now, back to our regular program.

Posted on: 2020/2/23 13:43
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Re: 1804-5-7-8 Rear Brake Drums
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Quality brake drums of the era and later were made by the "CentriFuse" (registered trademark) process which effectively applied via some centrifugal casting process a layer of cast iron-like alloy to the inner drum surface. This is because it has far superior frictional properties for braking than simple steel which for a while was (rather unsatisfactorily) used on early Model A Fords, and other cheap cars.

If you regularly follow along on the AACA forums you'll find a large number of threads about processes like spray welding and plasma metalization to restore a proper metal brake surface to old drums. I'm not sure how far these attempts have progressed but its important work as the supply of serviceable drums slowly diminishes.

DON'T cut drums unnecessarily, and most importantly, don't discard old drums!!


http://www.stemco.com/product/genuine-centrifuse/

Posted on: 2020/2/23 14:39
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Re: 1804-5-7-8 Rear Brake Drums
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When I say "turned out of blocks of steel" I don't mean he (Tom Lester) went down the local junk yard and picked up some old manhole covers. Obviously he spoke to metallurgists at the suppliers and bought the best materials.

I have to hand it to the guy. He had this car that was totally unsafe and made it work without buying crap out of the Summit Racing catalogue. Of course it does help if you own a big manufacturing operation.

So if you need brake drums for your Duesenberg it can be done as demonstrated by old man Lester.

Posted on: 2020/2/24 17:52
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Re: 1804-5-7-8 Rear Brake Drums
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I am trying to remove the driver side rear brake drum. First, is the axel nut reverse threaded? Once the nut is off how is the drum best removed? 1952-3 four door sedan ultramatic. Dennis

Posted on: 2022/5/24 23:59
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Re: 1804-5-7-8 Rear Brake Drums
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The nut is tight but not reverse-theaded but may have a cotter key too so look for that. Once the cotter key has been removed, it will take a socket and long breaker bar to get it loose. You can't do it with a regular ratchet.

You'll need a brake drum puller to remove the drum itself.

Posted on: 2022/5/25 0:03
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Re: 1804-5-7-8 Rear Brake Drums
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If the nut is to spec, it should be torqued in the range of 200-270 ft/lbs so as Don said, will need a socket and long breaker bar to get it started unscrewing. Even when the nut is loose, if the drum has not been removed in many years it may also prove to be very difficult to break free of the axle taper.

Use of a large and proper style puller is imperative. You can probably find something to rent but it needs to be the size and type used on larger pickups and small trucks. Those used for the typical cars we are now used to will not be large enough. Even with the proper puller you may need to get it tight and let it sit pulling on the drum for a period. Come back from time to time and give the screw another hit with the hammer. Sometimes this can take hours. Above all, while the puller is attached and pulling have the nut loosened a few turns but leave it and the washer still threaded on the axle shaft so once the drum breaks free it can not pop off the axle. All that force suddenly released can send the drum flying and do real damage if unrestrained.

Here is a thread showing an older version of the proper type puller in use and if you do a search of the forum on brake drum removal there are other more modern versions of similar type pullers shown.https://packardinfo.com/xoops/html/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=5026&post_id=53964#forumpost53964

Posted on: 2022/5/25 8:44
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