<VV> Brake shoe length

[Mike Kost]

Did you get an answer on your short & long brake shoes off line? I was just trying to do a search for this 
very topic and could not find it in the messages saved on my computer.

Chris C wrote:
> I got a set of brake shoes from a corvair vendor a couple years ago.  
> Finally putting them on a car.
> 
> First my technical question.
> 
> The orig shoes were the same length of material on each shoe of the 
> pair.  These have a short shoe.  Which one goes to the front of the 
> car.  I checked the service manual and all the pictures make it look 
> like the shoes are the same length.
> 
> 
> Now the is this normal questions:
>     The longer shoe is thicker than the short shoe.
>     Also 1.5 pairs are narrower than the other 2.5 pairs is this 
> normal.   By about an inch.
> 
> I put one set on of the long thick ones in the rear.  Had to force the 
> drum on.  Drove it and it drove ok, but was enligtened that I should 
> replace them in pairs.  Thats when I noticed the problem.
> 
> 
> Thanks to all.


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