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Show Replacing Brake Lining Is Not Difficult Task To replace a brake lining, the bands or shoes are taken off, the axle is placed In a vise, while the rivets are knocked off with a cold chisel or hammer. ham-mer. New strips of the lining fabric are cut to size. Beginning then at one end of the strip, two or three rivet holes are located with a blue pencil and cut with a punch, after which the fabric Is put in position on the shoe. Medium hard rivets, to prevent scoring scor-ing of the drums, are passed through the holes and are then headed down securely at the back of the band. They must be sunk well into the fabric lining, so that no projections are left. With the strip held tightly to prevent wrinkling, and with the band at its original curvature, the next hole is marked, punched and riveted In the same way. The operator simply keeps on around until the entire strip of lining is riveted down Into place on the shoe. The braking systems of our modern cars are efficient enough under ordinary ordi-nary circumstances, but they are not powerful enough to allow a margin for slack maintenance. They must be kept right up to the mark, and systematic sys-tematic inspections and repairs when needed are dictated by common sense. |