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RE: Brake Shoes - Chris KC - 13-07-2019
On an Austin Seven I would say brake lining wear is the least of your problems.
RE: Brake Shoes - Alan - 13-07-2019
At the time I was complaining of instability under heavy braking. (This on my race car). Wear didn’t come into it. I fixed it in the end by changing the offset of the front wheels.
RE: Brake Shoes - Steve Jones - 13-07-2019
(13-07-2019, 02:37 PM)Alan Wrote: At the time I was complaining of instability under heavy braking. (This on my race car). Wear didn’t come into it. I fixed it in the end by changing the offset of the front wheels.
Increasing it or reducing it?
Steve
RE: Brake Shoes - Alan - 13-07-2019
That would be telling.
Oh, ok. It doesn’t really matter. What I was trying to do was reduce the steering couple induced by brake force variation - wide wheels move the tread centre away from the king pin axis and this causes a turning moment on the wheels. Wider wheels increased the ground level offset. What I had to do was move the wheels inboard by increasing the wheel offset.