Best shoes for the rears.....

Howdy all,

Looking for some bro knowledge and advice for the best shoes to hold me over until I do rear disc conversion...... Many thanks and I very much appreciate your responses!!!

 

http://brakeperformance.com/brake-shoes/brake-shoes.php

 

Thanks my man!! Much appreciated!

 

something with a high heel usually works for me

 

She has shoes?

 

^This! Stick with drums and shoes for the rear I just replaced all the brakes front and rear from the site I posted above They make some quality parts. When you order front rotors they actually machine and dip them (zinc) per your order.



Drums, shoes, rotors, and pads. The braided extended lines came from Crown which is a great CO to do business with as well.

 

factory. best all around. how many miles did you get of them?

 

Only thing a rear disc conversion does for you is make maintenance easier to some degree (and then, only if you're willing to discount the massive labor investment on your part to implement the conversion in the first place).

Personally, I wouldn't bother. Benefit isn't worth the effort. How often do you have to service rear drum brakes? Like 4 or 5 times total over the life of the vehicle, if you keep it for a hojillion miles?

 

Mine lasted 130k before I changed em out and still had some shoe life left. There was just some minor scoring on the inside of the drum.

 

other than looks, and the pride-factor of having the nice parts, (im not knocking it) ijust dont see any benifit to altering the factory system, until im rolling on 37's or something and can no longer lock them up. until then, grippier pads just make it so you dont have to push the pedal as hard. possibly at the price of steel. (drums/rotors)

tires stop vehicles. if your vehicle stops your tires and your unhappy with your stopping distance, "better" brakes wont help

 

So you're lookin' at like...maybe 3 times.

So lets say someone never adjusts 'em and gets 'em full of sand dust all the time out west somewhere. Maybe they need service every 75 to 80k. That's still 5 servicings in 400,000mi?

The only thing I wonder about: The trucks with the new electronic doo-dads, so they see appreciably faster brake wear?

 

isn't it more cost effective to just stick with drum brakes. never understand the whole complaints about them. And don't the front disk brake take the most beatings.

 

Traveling forward (which is most of the time) front brakes are responsible for ~80% of braking load on most vehicles.

This is opposite when traveling in reverse, but people almost never travel in reverse at high speeds. Actually, they can't; transmissions only have one reverse gear ratio. But people never max that one ratio out unless they're running from the cops or some shit.

Drums get a bad rap on here because people consider them old technology. Steel frames are also old, and also all that's really needed. The windshield was designed in the 19singledigits and has also proved essentially good enough since then.

Most people don't stop to think if there's any benefit to rear disks.

 

They have some good prices....I think I might purchase my stuff here instead of getting raped somewhere else. Thanks for the link.

 

Just like a 1911 its been good since.......well 1911.

 

X2, love the 1911, an utah cwp,oh ya drum brakes too

 

Is true to a point. As my truck has larger tires and many pounds of aded steel which was never engineered from Toyota going with after market brakes was a no brainer! As for "tires stop the truck" thats a confusing statement, brakes stop the tires which in turn stops the vehicle.

I agree thats why I didn't mess with the OEM drums and shoes until 130k, as for the pads I went through 4 sets of OEM before changing the rotors and pads to after market. I do have a noticeable difference in braking performance.

 

Thanks for all the info gents, I just did my fronts with new EBC stuffand just wanted to do the rears at the same time for whatever reasons....

 

That's how my EBC's came to, what company are your rear shoes from?

 

How do you like the EBC stuff up front? I need to just get all new brake stuff soon. No squeeling yet but Im at 62k miles so soon it will be time. Im not gonna do anything crazy just want a good set of rotors, pads, shoes, drums.