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How far back in the day, 60s 70s, in a big Dodge dealership and we had no shoe ‘archer’

And of all I ever put on it was on and go, never a problem. Never had to match the ‘arch’ of shoe to a drum.

Good idea but I was taught to turn a drum on the rough side, it would seat in the shoes.

We called it by its real name, emergency brake, and I’ve used it as such with the single master cylinder cars. In 55 years I’ve never used but one “to park a car” I did drive a 1960 Dodge that had no ‘park’ with a push buttons auto trans, the ‘emergency’ brake WAS used when at rest.

“that is the same as a hole in the line and pedal goes to the floor, correct? How will that stop you?” If a hole or break the pedal will go half way not to floor, that side of the system is shut off because there’s two chambers in the Master cylinder, one for the back, one for the front. Two...

Exactly what the teachers said at the Dodge technical classes back in 1970. TY

Take your old shoes and have them relined.

The ‘proportioning’ valve goes to the rear brakes not the front. The big piece shown is nothing more than a safety valve, like factory, in case you lose front or back brakes. If your back brakes grab or lock up then you need a p valve or smaller diameter brakes.

camber and toe are easy to do, caster is the hardest

Looks like adjusters are way to long to me. I always put the old stuff back in unless broke, dull spring works as good as those shinny pieces.

I like this because I’ve never been able to get the others in between the top and lower joints, so hammer-pickle fork.

Buy from O Rilles just bought shoes for my 88 truck rivited and correct size, NO cheaply sets buy the best

From what you said I’m Glad I don’t live in Canada

I’ll look at some of my old shoes (1970s) I’m almost sure they are all made that way. Maybe the problem is the new ones are just made too short on the top edge. Old ones are both equal on bottom not raised like in your pic, I’m thinking the lining should be up to that notch

Didn’t bother me, just surprised me.

So I’ve been driving for 55 years and you gonna tell me how to use the brakes? And the emergency brake (what it used to be not this ‘parking’ brake of today) worked well with a four speed after a line broke at 60 mph. Stopped fine.

Us old timers call it pumping the brakes

With the wheel that much off the idle arm and pitman arm are not aligned with the lca pivot, a big problem steering

But they did, in a round about way

To each his own, sorry to have bothered you