If it is not messed up, it the parking brake mechanism will push equally on both shoes. If the wheel cylinder is frozen to the backing place and cannot "float", something else will happen.
In any case, the leading shoe does more work, because the rotation of the brake drum tends to "wrap" the leading shoe more tightly against the drum. Doug Braun '72 Spit At 11:13 AM 3/18/2004 -0800, you wrote: >Does the parking brake cable mechanism actuate BOTH >rear brake shoes (within each drum) or only ONE of the >shoes (in each drum)? > >If it activates only one shoe, is it the leading shoe >or the trailing shoe? (Leading shoe generates more >braking force, right?) *** http://www.team.net/the-local *** Your messages not reaching the list? Check out http://www.team.net/posting.html *** unsubscribe/change address requests to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or try *** http://www.team.net/cgi-bin/majorcool *** http://www.team.net/mailman/listinfo *** Archives at http://www.team.net/archive *** Edit your replies!
