[Benson]

As Brent mentioned in post #29 South Gate Brake Specialties Co. 1335 E. Washington L. A. California manufactured some "brake floaters" they called them "Ford Direct Action Brake".

Quote from Brent's post:
"Instead of the Wedge against rollers, there was a triangle set-up that worked well however the downside is these triangle pivots would go over-center and lock the shoes against the drum if the shoes were not in proper adjustment."
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This has to be before July 1st, 1963 because the address on instruction sheet that I have here does not have the 5 ZIP digit code for L. A.

I put a pair on the coupe and yes they worked well.

But as the shoes wore out the triangle floaters would go over center.

Result was a VERY LOUD BANG and the wheel would lock up.

Not a big deal if you were going under 40 MPH but very scary to have one front wheel lockup at 60 like happened to me!

I went back to stock brakes after they locked up several times.