nawlins-tim
Dont sweat the petty stuff.....
- Joined
- Apr 11, 2010
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- 34
Every time I see someone selling a set of Aluminum brake drums for some way out of sight price. It makes me mad. And it makes me come to the conclusion of if anyone has ever RE-SLEEVED a brake drum? I work in a repair shop, and we often sleeve shafts for a bearing journal or for a mechanical seal . Obviously a sleeve is not the best type of repair. But is almost good as new . And often saves the part, and saves money.
I have a drum that is too far worn to undercut. And I dont want to pay these high ass prices either for a replacement . I know I would probably have way too much time into the re-sleeve job to justify it. But maybe a point could be proven and others could do the same thing instead of adding the aluminum to the scrap pile. Just throwing some ideas around. One worry that I have is that the braking surface doesn't seem perpendicular to the drum hub. So the sleeve would have to be machined to the correct taper to ever start to work.
IDEAS anyone??????
I have a drum that is too far worn to undercut. And I dont want to pay these high ass prices either for a replacement . I know I would probably have way too much time into the re-sleeve job to justify it. But maybe a point could be proven and others could do the same thing instead of adding the aluminum to the scrap pile. Just throwing some ideas around. One worry that I have is that the braking surface doesn't seem perpendicular to the drum hub. So the sleeve would have to be machined to the correct taper to ever start to work.
IDEAS anyone??????