Hi all, Today, after morning rain, the weather was fine, the roads were dried so i did a little road test. I didn't want make a test on wet road .. I assume that 80 to 90 % of the problems are solved !! No brutal "right pull side" , no "lumpy" braking at very slow speed, no brutal locking (front left) wheel ! And only with replacing a drum which was previously turned ... Remember that i put the two (original) drums of my wrecked '57. The right side drum is a little grooved on braking lining surface and it's perhaps the reason that the car pulls (lightly) on the left on hard braking: more braking surface on left than right ? Before "crier victoire" (shout victory), i must make a longer test, maybe tomorrow. I must also wait a week and test if the brakes don't lock on the first braking but itsn't the most important thing ! I think that, as the left drum was conical-shaped, the lining follows the surface and wedges in the backing plate . I had some spots on the lining. Or only a fraction of the lining was used so the car pulls to the other side ? I haven't make a too long test to check if the brakes always squeak but i made the same road (5 miles) two weeks ago and when i came back home the brakes squeak. Today, i hear nothing !! I feel now very reassured, especially at 105 kph (and not mph..) -- Philippe COURANT (Pau, France)- Webmaster des sites ACCF et C-I-F Imperial 1957 Crown convertible Buick 1996 Roadmaster wagon - American Car Club de France (ACCF) : http://www.accf.com - Chrysler Imperial France (C-I-F) : http://www.ifrance.com/c-i-f - Cadillac " Standard of Excellence " : http://www.ifrance.com/accf-cad - SportsCars : http://www.ifrance.com/accf-sprtcar -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- Over 25,000 pages of archived Forward Look information can be easily searched at http://www.forwardlook.net/search.htm Powered by Google! |
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