Rear brakes on a 51 3600

[jabos]

Where can I get rear brake shoes and wheel cylinders for my 3600? I have tried classic parts and LMC no luck. Thanks for any input

[Wrenchbender Ret]

Jim Carters handles parts for the Huck brakes.

[jabos]

Thanks, I checked and they do have the wheel cylinders but no shoes.

[MIKESAD50]

Have you looked around to have your shoes relined?

[jabos]

Thanks,I did find somebody to reline the shoes for me. I dont understand why you can't get new rear shoes but you can on the front ones.

[MARTINSR]

It's probably because the fronts have more applications than the rear, maybe more years or something like that.

Brian

[dwcsr]

Originally Posted by jabos

Thanks,I did find somebody to reline the shoes for me. I dont understand why you can't get new rear shoes but you can on the front ones.

The fronts fit more trucks 3100, 3600, some 3800 fronts 1-3/4". The HD rears are usually 12 x 2 or 14"x2.5" and only fit trucks 3600 and 3800 rear for a narrow band of years. Its very common for larger shoes to be relined only. I suspect it also comes down to available cores to reline.

[jabos]

I got the shoes reclined and now I cant get the drums on. They will go if I hammer them on but that seems to be to tight

[dwcsr]

from what I remember of relining shoes back on the 60's we had to shape the relines on a shoe grinder so they would fit the drum arc. You may need to bring the shoes and drums to the re-liner for then to shape the shoes

[1project2many]

Yep, called "contour grinding." Find a big truck shop that relines brakes. They can usually do it.

[jabos]

Thanks guys I will look into that.