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Brake Shoes' Leading Edge (Read 83 times)
georgekathe
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Brake Shoes' Leading Edge
08/14/06 at 04:58:02
Hi -
Comes up every time I do a brake shoe change - I can never remember which is the leading edge.
The Clymers & other manuals I've read on other bikes over the years states that when fitting new shoes you file/chamfer off the leading edge so it does not grab/bind under braking.
All logical to me - but which is the leading edge?!
Let's say as you look at the brake shoes fitted back into their place on the backing plate - which edge to chamfer/file down - the "left or right" edge of each shoe?
Don't want to file off both edges to safeguard as I'll be in effect cutting down on my contact area a little.
If anyone could answer by 2:00 PM Mountain Time today (Monday 8/14) I'd be most grateful as want to do brake job this afternoon when off work (yeah, I know I left it until last minute to ask, but...don't we all do it sometimes?)
Thanks, an old hand @ brake shoe changes who just can't retain some of the basic rules over the years, George ???
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Re: Brake Shoes' Leading Edge
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08/14/06 at 05:37:22
Using one of Greg's pictures from this post
http://suzukisavage.com/cgi-bin/YaBB.pl?board=tech;action=display;num=1121446...
Believe this would be the leading edge - however the last EBC's I used already had it beveled - and likely the one on the right side of the picture is the only one to touch the drum surface
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08/14/06 at 08:17:52
thanks for speedy response, Gary & thanks for undertaking to send ss carb screws to me so quickly.
George
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07/23/11 at 04:54:21
It's no big deal to file down both ends of the shoes.
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07/23/11 at 12:12:54
say the word shoes and you get a spam bot a peddling nikes ....
say the word "earl" and you gets another earl war ....
Ya gotta watch what your say on the internet, really !!
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Re: Brake Shoes' Leading Edge
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07/24/11 at 06:06:15
I replaced my shoes this past winter with the EBC's. Seems to me both shoes had pre-beveled edges on both the leading and trailing edges. If not, a quick filing will do the trick.
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