Recent content by 1959chevybr

First of all thanks for your comments when I banging my head on my 59. We must have similar interest, my car in waiting is a 67 Chevelle, course I love them all. I bought this one out of Denver because here on the east coast we see nothing but rust. I think you got a winner there, I would much...

I have worked on cars as a hobby for more years than I want to admit. I have never had a brake drum bad enough to cause me a problem that I realized. Maybe some of my cars could have been smoother had I been aware but this is a first for me. I had 4 drums in my possession before taking one back...

To everyone that took the time to send me advice, pictures, documents or comments thank you so much.. When I was working for a living they used to call me bull dog as I would never let go of a problem until fixed. This bull dog was almost at the point of letting go, all the encouragement helped...

Today was test day, balanced drive shaft, balanced brake drums (the temp fix on the brake drums held up just fine) and angles I think we can live with. Traffic was tolerable today so I got about 50 miles in and was able to vary speed from 55-75. The car was the best it has ever been...

I agree, the factory drums have a double edge and before it is over I feel I will be back to both factory drums. The second lip could be milled to balance things up, good suggestion. The China drum has a single lip but weighs much more than factory drum. I am going to take calipers and figure...

Would we not all be surprised thou if they stayed on?

I agree with you, its a try, got to get weight on the drums so this is something they use in aero space industry, I don't think the flying weight will hurt anything, you might not want to ride behind me thou. I would like to take the balancer to the auto parts store and just keep unboxing drums...

No real work on car today, started with a flat tire on my truck. Still a good day, we found an even better bubble balancer and checked all 3 drums again, all were off some, from 3/4 ounce, 1 1/2 ounce and 3 ounces. My friend has some high temp adhesive for a jet plane of something, so we are...

I misspoke above and said rims, I meant drums.

We started discussing the difficulties of trying to weld the cast and somewhat gave up on that. Don't know if there is enough material to remove. They welded weights to the best of the two rims I bought but it is some kind of spot weld, some of you guys know way more about that type weld than I...

jdk971, I agree it was enough on the lift just running with brake drums on to make the lift shake.

Lonnie, I LOVE gray hair!!!! LOL... it is so much better than none at all... Seems these days I have more scars on my head than hair. I never realized how beneficial hair was to give some protection from head bumps while under the car lift. These days mine is getting somewhat thin...

No test drive today, nasty weather. I took the drive shaft and had it balanced with the newer out of phase front shaft. I also took the two "bad" drums that I felt were causing some of my vibration over to a friend that has a nice old bubble balancer and we experimented to see if it would give...

ragtp66, Thanks for the great article, not that it might be absolutely correct but I feel "any knowledge is power". One source of the article was Inland Empire Drive shafts and I consider those guys very reputable. I bought the slip joint rear shaft and solid CB and in my opinion is well...

We have tried both, after the angles were decent but before we replaced the brake drum. The vibration at 60 was slightly less with out of phase but the shutter had a marked improvement over the "in phase. One of the guys commented either on this blog or another that I read, fixing X frame drive...