Fitting new rear drums over new linings and won't go even when adjuster is fully backed off. What's the best way to go?

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David L


My greatest fear in life is that when I die my wife will sell my Mini and tools for the price I told her I paid for them!

Do you have the shoes centred? You may need to gently take the sharp edges off the shoes or the ridge off the drums to coax them on.

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The drum gets about halfway on the jams tight

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David L


My greatest fear in life is that when I die my wife will sell my Mini and tools for the price I told her I paid for them!

Check the width of the shoes.
1-1/4" = rears. 1-1/2" = fronts. Fronts do not fit on the back, they behave as you described.
Don't ask how I know...

[edit] use new shoes from Kc, they stop better than the rebonded cardboard ones brake shops sell here.

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DrMini- 1970 wasaMatic 1360, Mk1S crank, 86.6HP (ATW) =~125 @ crank, 45 Dellorto (38 chokes), RE282 sprint cam, 1.5 rockers, 11.0:1 C/R.

See if the new drums are binding on the hub without the linings fitted. Minifins that I have bought have this problem.

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Shoes are 31mm so 1 1/4" - I have the old original shoes that came with the car I'll put them on and see if I can get them to work - thickness of pad and shoe is 6.5 -6.7mm on the old and 9.4mm on the new. The old drums fitted OK over the new shoes.- bit more meat in the new drum I guess.

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David L


My greatest fear in life is that when I die my wife will sell my Mini and tools for the price I told her I paid for them!

sounds like you have oversize shoes to me

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No offence intended here but--> anyone writing a book about minis 30 years ago may not have experienced such worn or stuffed-with components as we are finding these days.

You should put your heart & soul into everything you do.

Could be Matt -recall now that Glen Carpenter sold me some second hand drums and I could not adjust the the shoes tight enough - he than sold me some new shoes "on exchange" for the old ones but I never got around to dropping them off. Looking at the old shoes the pads are 4.3mm thick and the big black book says minimum pad thickness is 1.7 mm so I'll put them back in and keep the thicker pads with the old drums for another time or sale.

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David L


My greatest fear in life is that when I die my wife will sell my Mini and tools for the price I told her I paid for them!

It is/was common out here for brake shops to skim the worn drums out to +1/32" or +1/16" and supply oversizes bonded shoes, radius ground to suit.
These will NOT then fit in a standard 7" drum.
Go buy some new shoes, they are cheap from Kc and elsewhere.

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DrMini- 1970 wasaMatic 1360, Mk1S crank, 86.6HP (ATW) =~125 @ crank, 45 Dellorto (38 chokes), RE282 sprint cam, 1.5 rockers, 11.0:1 C/R.

Thanks Matt and Doc for the heads up - will order end of the week when the credit card has recovered from the pre Christmas onslaught

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David L


My greatest fear in life is that when I die my wife will sell my Mini and tools for the price I told her I paid for them!