The Dark Wob

It looks like somebody put the decimal point in the wrong place at that price.

Talc is what you need for your wiper blades, apparently.

Ah, another day, another disaster. Whilst driving into work, there was a loud bang from the front of the car. I checked the rear view mirror - nothing - and the handling was unchanged so I pushed on, having a train to catch. Though the brake pedal had suddenly started going down to near the floor.
Today I returned from my work trip and drove the car home, surmising it was definitely brakes and I could hear the front nearside making a grinding noise when they were applied. It was also binding. My initial thought was a shoe return spring had snapped, with the bang, and they were jamming on. When I got home I investigated, and had to hammer the drum off.

This is what greeted me.


So I eat my words about old stock always being better. 1970's Raybestos bonded linings are shit. Christ knows what I was thinking, when for years I insisted on riveted linings. The drum is also so deeply scored it's now scrap. And guess who, despite them lying in the garage for over a month, just threw out the other brake shoes for the dustmen to collect? So I am without transport until I go to Wales for the Allegro... for which I need a car.
What next? Loss of life and limb? A door falls off? A conrod makes a bid for freedom? I am having a remarkable run of bad luck just now.

Oof.

Which car was this? The Moggie?

SiC wrote: ↑Mon Dec 09, 2019 10:05 pm Oof.

Which car was this? The Moggie?

Aye. One step forward, two steps back.

I know you're not into modern repo bits, but for speed in getting back on the road you could always get a set from Moss. Backs don't do a whole lot of work anyway. Iirc you live Manchester way and not far from a branch of one? I believe there is a Moss right near Junkman.

They're on a slight discount at the moment

Shoes: https://www.moss-europe.co.uk/brake-sho ... soc=136084

Drums:
https://www.moss-europe.co.uk/brake-dru ... soc=610348

Or these alternatives: (no idea on the differences)
https://www.moss-europe.co.uk/brake-dru ... a7168.html

Basically 40 quid or so for the bits and you should be able to get them same day from a branch. One of the luxuries of owning a classic that is well stocked for parts on.

Sorry just realised you said front. Even so, Moss do the fronts too of course and are a similar price.

Ahh bugger. Only time I've seen shoes so that is when they've been dragging & got too hot. But that was handbrake shoes on a Vauxhall, I'd expect you to notice a front brake dragging on that.

You could always rivet new linings onto those shoes?

Rivet the same linings on?