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Subject:Re: Rear brakes, '81 Vanagon
Date:Fri, 6 Dec 1996 06:48:26 -0500
In a message dated 96-12-03 22:10:43 EST, young@sherlock.sims.berkeley.edu
(Beth Young) writes:

<< All three of my manuals say that I should fit oversize shoes if I
  turn the drums.  I don't remember this injunction with any other cars
  I've worked on, and when I ask at my local FLAPS about oversize
  shoes, they just give me puzzled looks.
 
  Do "oversize" shoes really exist?  Are they really necessary? >>

Not any more and the thin drums will warp.

Dennis