Re: Brakes
Recently put cast iron drums on my 30 Tudor, which already had Ted's Floaters on with good soft shoes, but I am still amazed at how much better it stops. I must also mention that the biggest difference came from the new drum being perfectly round and it gave me the ability to greatly improve the close tolerance of drum to shoe contact, before depressing the pedal, without the drag that was present on the old drums that were to some degree out of round.
The most helpful tool for adjusting the brakes, in my opinion, is to use the lazor thermometer to adjust all four wheels with no drag and the ability to measure the actual contact of each wheel via the temperature differences when applying the brakes.
The CI drums really resist the brake fade I had prior to the change over.
As is always the case it goes with out saying that eliminating all slop out of all the components and maintaining the 15* foreword angle is an absolute necessity!!!
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