There is a reason that every manufacturer eventually dropped the drum brake design. When cars had 100 horsepower drum brakes were just fine, but as horsepower and vehicle weight increased, the need ...

A quality drum brake rebuild using performance shoes and new small parts can make an incredible difference in braking power. Note that the shoe with the shorter lining (called the primary shoe) always ...

Autoblog may receive a share from purchases made via links on this page. Pricing and availability are subject to change. The brakes on your car are one thing you don’t want to put off fixing. Luckily, ...

Classic Mustang drum brakes have never been big performers. Even when these cars were new, their drum brakes were problematic, noisy, and often pulled badly. Fade was terrible under hard braking, ...

Among the biggest shifts in hot rodding mindset over the last couple of decades, is the concept of good braking performance. Simply put, we live in an era where marginal brakes are no longer ...

Drum brakes may be older tech, but a lot of vehicles, especially trucks, still use them. What are some of the most common ...

Modern trucks come equipped with advanced technologies, yet many still rely on drum brakes, a design that has been around for more than a century. Drum brakes remain widely used in the trucking ...

Brake technology, just like many other car technologies, has come a long way in recent years. If you did drive in the late 1980’s you would have a crystal clear idea of the exponential change where ...

Five years ago, when federal authorities announced that stopping-distance rules for heavy tractors would get stricter, there was talk that this would finally cause a conversion from drum brakes to air ...