Auto-Adjusting Leading/Trailing Shoe Car Drum Brakes

790394

02/01/1979

Event
1979 Automotive Engineering Congress and Exposition
Authors Abstract
Content
Motor manufacturers are still using leading/trailing drum brakes on the rear axle of passenger cars. The main reasons for this persistence are that handbrakes can be incorporated which give similar performance in either direction, and have simple but very effective automatic adjusters.
This paper describes two brakes, both intended to use with forward pull handbrakes, each having a very different automatic adjuster. One being a ‘one shot’ type and the other a linear incremental type.
The construction, function and advantages of each are outlined together with the main parameters which affect the degree of adjustment which can take place.
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DOI
https://doi.org/10.4271/790394
Pages
11
Citation
Pace, C., "Auto-Adjusting Leading/Trailing Shoe Car Drum Brakes," SAE Technical Paper 790394, 1979, https://doi.org/10.4271/790394.
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Publisher
Published
Feb 1, 1979
Product Code
790394
Content Type
Technical Paper
Language
English