The front brakes on my recently acquired 250 WR don't work. I took the wheel/brakes apart, and the shoes/brakes were just soaked in oil. I don't know why. Anyway, I'm guessing that the shoes are shot. Where is the best place to get new shoes? EBay vendors have something called "EBC shoes." Are those shoes any good? Any other vendors I should look at? vintagehusky? vintagedirtbike parts? I'm new at this and need to figure out vendors. Thanks.
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Hi everyone,
As you all know, Coffee (Dean) passed away a couple of years ago. I am Dean's ex-wife's husband and happen to have spent my career in tech. Over the years, I occasionally helped Dean with various tech issues.
When he passed, I worked with his kids to gather the necessary credentials to keep this site running. Since then (and for however long they worked with Coffee), Woodschick and Dirtdame have been maintaining the site and covering the costs. Without their hard work and financial support, CafeHusky would have been lost.
Over the past couple of weeks, I’ve been working to migrate the site to a free cloud compute instance so that Woodschick and Dirtdame no longer have to fund it. At the same time, I’ve updated the site to a current version of XenForo (the discussion software it runs on). The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.
Unfortunately, the new software version doesn’t support importing the old site’s styles, so for now, you’ll see the XenForo default style. This may change over time.
Coffee didn’t document the work he did on the site, so I’ve been digging through the old setup to understand how everything was running. There may still be things I’ve missed. One known issue is that email functionality is not yet working on the new site, but I hope to resolve this over time.
Thanks for your patience and support!
1974 WR 250 front brake shoes
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EBC are the go. or, get your old shoes and hit them with some contact cleaner, that will remove the oil.
hacksaw a groove down the middle of the shoes (not too deep )and then diagonal cuts every 2 cms to help water get pushed out.
give the shoes a scuff up with some sandpaper and the drum as well. just a light rub to remove any glazing.
EBC come with grooved shoes if you plan to be riding through water also.
don't forget to grease the pivot pins with waterproof grease. put a tiny dab on the cam face and the shoe pivot (tiny dab).
when doing up the front axle nut, spin the wheel backward and pull the brakes on. do up the nut with the brakes on. this helps centralise the shoes in the drum.
hacksaw a groove down the middle of the shoes (not too deep )and then diagonal cuts every 2 cms to help water get pushed out.
give the shoes a scuff up with some sandpaper and the drum as well. just a light rub to remove any glazing.
EBC come with grooved shoes if you plan to be riding through water also.
don't forget to grease the pivot pins with waterproof grease. put a tiny dab on the cam face and the shoe pivot (tiny dab).
when doing up the front axle nut, spin the wheel backward and pull the brakes on. do up the nut with the brakes on. this helps centralise the shoes in the drum.
justintendo
klotz super techniplate junkie
ebc always makes a good replacement. figure out what part number fits your model then try finding a good price on that..ebay! all the suppliers are good for certain things