67 new yorker drum brakes

[peterlucas]

I am doing a complete over haul on my brakes, new master cylinder, shoes,wheel cylinders, spring hardware etc, i am having trouble finding front shoes, the only ones i could find are 3" wide but in the owners manual it says only police cars and the High performance 440 version were fitted with 3" wide shoes.
I took the wheel off and couldnt get the drum off easily so had a bit of a measure and the drum is about 3.5" wide would this be a 3" shoe? and the manual also says my car should have 6" wide wheels the standard ones on mine are 7"

 

[commando1]

How did you measure your wheels with the tires mounted on them and on the car?

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[peterlucas]

i took the wheel off the car, the rim has 4 little slits around the rim where the face of the wheel meets the flat bit where the tire mounts if ya get what i mean, i slid a thin steel ruler through the slit and you can get a very accurate measurement as the ruler is only bout half an inch above the edge of the rim and it was 180ish mm = 7" , the spare in the boot is a 6"

 

[has2bmopar]

Wheel measurement is from bead surface to bead surface for diameter and width, not the overall width or diameter.

The overall measurements on a 14" x 6" wheel will be about 15" x 7"

Backspace and offset will be measured to the outside edges.

 

[has2bmopar]

Your brakes should be 11" x 3"...

Let's see some pictures of your car...

 

[polara71]

Has2be always has great illustrations and photos

 

[USMC67300]

This is what i found when i started the brake job on my 67 300

 

[polara71]

a cracked shoe.....

 

[Stormer]

The overall measurements

I measure starting from, oh nevermind. ;)

 

[polara71]

problem is you measure in metric

 

[commando1]

How come that whole metric movement died out except where it has become the biggest pain in the ***, Cars!

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[Stormer]

problem is you measure in metric

Meters....

 

[has2bmopar]

Meters....

(milli)......

 

[polara71]

And buying large bottles of soda pop

 

[1978 NYB]

Or liquor............

 

[polara71]

Yeah, your right but not milk.... Go figure

 

[commando1]

I don't know. Which is it?

 

[polara71]

Miles.....thats an old sign

 

[commando1]

I take it that it's not there anymore?

 

[Stormer]

I take it that it's not there anymore?

I'm pretty sure that it's still there.