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Old 03-06-2014, 12:21 PM   #17
Keith Seymore
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Re: Another brake question

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Originally Posted by Tx Firefighter View Post
Good tech there. Few people know or even think about the arc of a brake shoe.

Back in the day, many garages would "arc" your new shoes when they did a brake job. Its a dead art now though. There's a local shop here in town that still has a big old sign in the bay advertising the service. I'd like to buy their machine just for the novelty of it.
Thank you; naturally, we had a problem one time.

Presenting symptom was rear brake "moan" on the JB7 brake system. I spent quite a bit of time at a supplier called "Unibond" and learned a lot about rear shoes, production techniques and this "arc" process.

More than I wanted to -



It might seem trivial, since it looks like they are "right up the road" - but at the time I was resident at the Desert Proving Ground in Arizona, so it was quite a trip.

Still have their complementary note pad.

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