Here's an auction for something I've never run into before: Brake shoe weights for the A-body 9" drums. I see this package listed in my '73 FPC, but can't imagine what it's for. Anyone know?

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Too many people who were born on third base actually believe they've hit a triple.

My quess would be mass for the shoes to absorb heat..........

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Ed
64 Valiant 225 / 904 / 42:1 manual steering / 9" drum brakes

Mmm...I'm not so sure that'd work so well. Look at the small contact area where the weights would attach to the shoes.

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Too many people who were born on third base actually believe they've hit a triple.

Gut reaction,

Vibration or harmonic dampening add on. Curious.

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That's a reasonable-sounding guess. Maybe with the tweaks and fiddles they made to the 9" brake system for '73, they wound up with brake noise that could only be killed by increasing the brake shoe mass. Pretty amazing the lengths they went to in order to keep using the cheapest possible brakes!

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Too many people who were born on third base actually believe they've hit a triple.

And perhaps in the process moving the mass center.

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I would bet on this.

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I asked if the seller could e-mail me a copy of the directions. If he does, this may shed some light on the subject.

Does any one have a list of TSB's for these vehicles? There may be something there.

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Charrlie_S
65 Valiant 100 2dr post 170 turbo
66 Valiant Signet 170 nitrous
64 Valiant Signet
64 Valiant 4dr 170
64 Valiant 4dr 225

This is a response, to posting a question about the weights on the IATN

Those cars had a brake squeal problem. Chrysler came up
with these weights that you bolted to the shoes and it
absorbed the vibration so no more squeal.

Gordon Ward
Owner/Technician
Gordons Auto Repair
Monroe, New Hampshire, USA

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Charrlie_S
65 Valiant 100 2dr post 170 turbo
66 Valiant Signet 170 nitrous
64 Valiant Signet
64 Valiant 4dr 170
64 Valiant 4dr 225

Occurs to me that the "squeal" might've been useful in some situations, as a secondary public warning system.

"Lord, Martha, git outta the way o' that thing. Cain't ya hear it?"

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