4th gen F-Body (Camaro/Firebird/Trans Am)
Centric parking brake shoes for these cars are HH! I have never seen HH in any pads or shoes for any car before, OEM or aftermarket. EBC's website says they're essentially only found on motorcycles (EBC doesn't make any drum brake shoes). That's why it's so surprising to me. Part number 111.07840, FMSI # S784
Bosch is also HH
Dynamic Friction is GH
Power Stop is FF
I couldn't find the friction rating on Wagner and Bendix shoes, nor I could find the rating of the OEM shoes.
Centric was the cheapest and shipped from the same warehouse as other parts I needed, so Centric is what I got.
The 4th F-Body (and some other GM cars and trucks) use a weird parking brake shoe design. They're not like normal drum shoes with the scary springs and everything. Instead, they're shaped like a horseshoe, a C-shape with both shoes on the same ring. They seem less scary to work on than normal drums and shoes.
The only problem is that the shoe lining, the friction material area, is so thin, noticeably thinner than drum brake shoes normally are. Are parking brake shoes normally that thin? I don't have much experience with rear discs that use separate parking brake shoes. Maybe they made the shoes HH to compensate for the thinner shoe thickness
Centric parking brake shoes for these cars are HH! I have never seen HH in any pads or shoes for any car before, OEM or aftermarket. EBC's website says they're essentially only found on motorcycles (EBC doesn't make any drum brake shoes). That's why it's so surprising to me. Part number 111.07840, FMSI # S784
Bosch is also HH
Dynamic Friction is GH
Power Stop is FF
I couldn't find the friction rating on Wagner and Bendix shoes, nor I could find the rating of the OEM shoes.
Centric was the cheapest and shipped from the same warehouse as other parts I needed, so Centric is what I got.
The 4th F-Body (and some other GM cars and trucks) use a weird parking brake shoe design. They're not like normal drum shoes with the scary springs and everything. Instead, they're shaped like a horseshoe, a C-shape with both shoes on the same ring. They seem less scary to work on than normal drums and shoes.
The only problem is that the shoe lining, the friction material area, is so thin, noticeably thinner than drum brake shoes normally are. Are parking brake shoes normally that thin? I don't have much experience with rear discs that use separate parking brake shoes. Maybe they made the shoes HH to compensate for the thinner shoe thickness