I was looking at my brakes this morning and the outer edge of the drums are scored a little.
The shoes are plenty thick and legal.
Is this still legal? Why would it do that if the pads aren't worn out?
Thank you
I'll upload a picture if need be.
Brake drum issue legality
Discussion in 'Trucking Industry Regulations' started by Edjahman, Mar 9, 2017.
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It's not scored really bad and it's just the outer edge. Very peculiar.
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Did someone recently replace shoes and not drums, or didn't bother to cut drums?
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As brake drums wear away the iron, they develop a ridge of unworn material inside the shoes.
Someone can cite the statute if they want, the fact is that the more wear there is, the larger the diameter of the inside of the drum, and when shoe wear and drum wear reach a certain point, overcamming is likely, meaning the brakes on that wheel won't release. Hence, part of the reason the regulation for drum thickness.
The ridging is normal as the drum wears. The scoring you notice not that uncommon.Edjahman Thanks this. -
OK thank you very much. It's a 2016 Pete with 115,000 on it. It's the original brakes.
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If you think about it, the 115,00 miles of wear and use has made metal particles erode.
Since the drum is open in back, it is only logical the particles, and dirt and rocks,
(dead birds, and little critters too,) would migrate or roll to the outer edge + fall out.
Open and close brakes - and these particles that migrate or roll to the open side are trapped for a time under the brake shoe. So your product is wear thats uneaven.Edjahman Thanks this. -
And is that your picture - or Frank Zappa.
Saw him in Fillmore East like 1969 or so. Wow.Edjahman Thanks this. -
Hahaha it's Frank. Me and my wife love Frank.
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The wear on the drum cannot be more than .120 over the original size of the drum. In the old days with asbestos brakes the shoes used to wear and the drums didn't. With a whole host of materials used in brake shoes these days, I find my drums wearing out much faster, usually replacing the drums every other brake job. They are cheap. One of the more prolific posters around here is Scalemaster who routinely checks drum diameters with a tool the enforcement community has.
I don't know what the out of service criteria is. 110,000 miles seems to be premature, but don't know the particulars.Toomanybikes and Edjahman Thank this.
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