Re: [FWDLK] Fwd: [FWDLK] The spring on a drum

[JLSAVARD@xxxxxxx]

In a message dated 6/1/2004 2:18:30 PM Eastern Standard Time, moparsbeme@xxxxxxxxx writes:

I have been told 2 things by old timers. One was that it is a silencer, so the drum dosen't have a noise when stopping, the second was for balance. Don't know if it was used to hold a weight but I doubt that. -J- (soon to be finless)

Bryan Scott <scott1990@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Date: Tue, 1 Jun 2004 08:41:38 -0400
From: Bryan Scott
Subject: [FWDLK] The spring on a drum
To: L-FORWARDLOOK@xxxxxxxxxxxxx

Can anyone tell me what purpose the spring (that wraps around the back part)
of a brake drum serves?

My understanding was that it was for silencing purposes, but I've no idea how that would work.

 

Joe Savard
Lake Orion, MI