The brakes on the Chev had been a cause of concern since the car was restored for my daughter's wedding in 2007. As much as I tried to get them working better, and they were still average, and that's an under statement. I was now driving the car further and faster than before, and hit and miss brakes are bad enough around the suburbs at 35mph, but on the open road at a cracking 45 to 50mph, well that's another story.
Fading brakes were becoming the norm.
I made numerous enquiries from commercial brake shops with the majority not able to supply a soft lining to replace the modern hard linings. One brake shop could supply soft linings, but could only bond the linings, and wanted to charge like a wounded bull. All the advice I was given by Chev experts was to rivet the linings to reduce the chance of brake squeal.
After consulting local Chev experts, I rang Kevin Smith in NSW who had assisted me previously, and was the person I thank for introducing me to long reach spark plugs, Auto lite 3077's.
Kevin was excellent, and after discussing what the best solution was, I stripped out the front and rear linings and posted them of to Kevin.
About 3 weeks later I received the new linings and had them installed in about a week.
Even though they are still bedding in, for the first time in many years I had brakes that I was confident with, very fiddly to get set up correctly, but they pull the bloody thing up.
That's a bonus.
Thanks Kevin, as always your help was much appreciated.
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