

| Subject: | Re: Solved?? Re: further measuring of new GW brake shoes vs old generic brand shoes |
| From: | Neil N |
| Date: | Fri, 27 May 2016 11:06:13 -0700 |
No doubt. Even moving a shoe or shoes up/down a couple mm's makes a fair difference to measurement at outside of shoe. What I meant was, looking from a birds eye POV (down at shoes), the outer dimension at edge closest to the backing plate is greater than edge nearest drum. If that makes sense. On 5/27/16, OlRivrRat <OlRivrRat@comcast.net> wrote: > Neil > > I think that may just be The Nature of the Beast ~ Since the Pivot & Drive > Points are > > on a Blade on the Shoes CenterLine & the Shoes are More or Less Just > Floating in there they > > have Nothing to align them until they Go Up Against the Drum ~ That works in > there favor > > as it allows them to SelfAdjust(Wobble) to any Uneven Wear that might occur > ~ > > ORR ~ DeanB -- Neil n Blog: Vanagons, Westfalia, general <http://tubaneil.blogspot.ca> 1988 Westy Images <https://picasaweb.google.com/musomuso/New1988Westy> 1981 Westfalia "Jaco" Images, technical <http://tubaneil.googlepages.com/> Vanagon-Bus VAG Gas Engine Swap Group <http://tinyurl.com/khalbay>
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