<VV> Power Brakes for Corvair

[Ron]

I have heard that metallic shoes grind the drums away.
RonH

----- Original Message ----- 
From: <Mikeamauro at aol.com>
To: <virtualvairs at corvair.org>; <gojoe283 at yahoo.com>
Sent: Thursday, November 09, 2006 6:32 PM
Subject: <VV> Power Brakes for Corvair


> Bill H. wrote:
> "...Guys, in my test drive yesterday I found the brakes  somewhat 
> difficult
> to modulate.  I'll get used to them pretty quickly, but  my wife won't. 
> She'll
> be very upset when she finds out that the car has  manual drums, as good 
> as
> they are, they do take some  practice..."
>
>
> I recently changed to Clark's metallic shoes on my 67, and the petal 
> effort
> is much less (I'll be putting metallic shoes on the Greenbrier and 64 
> Spyder,
> next.). Comparatively, the car now feels like it has power  brakes. I'd 
> try
> metallic shoes before modifying to power brakes.
>
> Mike Mauro
> of several Corvairs
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