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Old 02-14-2026, 04:31 PM   #8
Karl Wolf
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Default Re: 1936 Brake Drums

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Originally Posted by Juergen View Post
Ford never quoted a figure in their manuals and it was suspiciously absent. In several early Ford manuals (like the 1941-1948 Ford Service manuals), the car specs were blank while some trucks had limits. In the 1949 - 1951 passenger car shop manual, with the arrival of Bendix brakes, Ford specified .060. The late Dick Spadaro offered this advice; use .060 for Bendix brakes and .090 for Lockheed brakes.

Now you will get a lot of people claiming state rules are at .060 but I have never seen any barner back up this claim with written evidence of a law. I had an aluminum GM brake drum that had .090 as the maximum diameter.
That may have been the drums from an 12" Buick... They STARTED at 12.030, and would be at 12.090 when at max size. This is pretty much a unique situation. Old VWs are another.

On a drum that's got grooves that go deep, I may machine out to .060, leaving some raw grooves... Doesn't seem to make a difference.

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