Tip of the day?

[seamus88]

Over the weekend I decided to change my rear shoes(1990 Civic Si). Of course the drums had a little lip on the inside but the braking surface was fine. Which is amazing beacause they have 132,000 miles on them and 40,000 include autocross/track time and club racing.I wanted get rid of the lip because it is a pain to get the drums off.So I used my own "creative" brake lathe(do this at your own risk). I bolted the drums on backwards to the front.Put the car in 4th gear and let it idle. Then I used a air grinder to grind a bevel on the outer edge. Now the drum comes off a lot easier.Again do this at your own risk but it worked.

 

[KevSC1]

Originally posted by seamus88:
. I bolted the drums on backwards to the front.Put the car in 4th gear and let it idle.

A guy I work with does the same thing with rotors to resurface them.


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Kevin M. Keller
crew, '94 Saturn SC2 ITA CenDiv 2003 Champs
F&C, STL Region
http://www.saturnperformanceclub.com

 

[racer-025]

I used to do crazy things like that until I found out what the price for cheap after market drums were for that Civic. At $18 each, I just throw them away and replace them.