I was thinking that if you use the heal of your hand to push down on the shoe instead of grabbing it (you wouldn't get grease everywhere)from the beginning it would be easy to lift the shoe butt into position with the screwdriver
Your struggle to refit the shoes has nothing to do with the re-arcing process. After re-arcing them freely like in your demonstration, you have to refit them to the backing plate anyway. I was wondering whether your comment "doing it another way" meant arcing the shoes to the drum while the shoes were already mounted on the backing plate. But apparently you did not demonstrate this. So I'm confused with what "the other way" was. By the way, your struggle was probably because you didn't have the rotating cam in its "flat" or relaxed position when the brake shoes are retracted. You were fighting the cam surfaces trying to push the shoes outward, as when braking. I've refit hundreds of shoes over the years (mostly British but same thing) and never struggled like this.
Good videos!
I was thinking that if you use the heal of your hand to push down on the shoe instead of grabbing it (you wouldn't get grease everywhere)from the beginning it would be easy to lift the shoe butt into position with the screwdriver
Could you share the vendor who relined the brake pads? Many thanks!
Hans, I relined the shoes myself. Look at the vintage brake rebuild video on the channel. If you have questions please ask.
Your struggle to refit the shoes has nothing to do with the re-arcing process. After re-arcing them freely like in your demonstration, you have to refit them to the backing plate anyway. I was wondering whether your comment "doing it another way" meant arcing the shoes to the drum while the shoes were already mounted on the backing plate. But apparently you did not demonstrate this. So I'm confused with what "the other way" was.
By the way, your struggle was probably because you didn't have the rotating cam in its "flat" or relaxed position when the brake shoes are retracted. You were fighting the cam surfaces trying to push the shoes outward, as when braking. I've refit hundreds of shoes over the years (mostly British but same thing) and never struggled like this.
First time I've heard brake shoes call brake pads.