Front drum

MANATEEBREATH · Post by **MANATEEBREATH** » Sun Jun 27, 2010 9:22 am

I bought a great looking front hub years ago. It was clean and already polished. Now that the bike is done, I notice that the drum is horribly out of round, can even use the front brake over 20 mph.
Is there a way to resurface these drums like a car drum?

e3steve · Post by **e3steve** » Sun Jun 27, 2010 12:06 pm

I had mine skimmed off at a local engineering company. Haven't built the wheels up yet, though.

MANATEEBREATH · Post by **MANATEEBREATH** » Sun Jun 27, 2010 12:11 pm

IM sitting here watching the FI race in your country. , Wow what a terrible crash Webber had....
Glad he is ok.
Thank you for the info

e3steve · Post by **e3steve** » Sun Jun 27, 2010 12:16 pm

I missed it this week! I was playing with CB in the garage and thinking it was recording but the hard disk on my Sky+ (PVR) was full! Bugger!!

e3steve · Post by **e3steve** » Mon Jun 28, 2010 5:33 am

...but interesting!

MANATEEBREATH · Post by **MANATEEBREATH** » Tue Jul 06, 2010 8:08 am

Ok, being a Honda car tech, I have access to automotive brake lathes. So, I took one of my old ugly front hubs and remove its ball bearings, chucked it up in the lathe with an appropriate set of adapters and was able to resurface the brake drum surface easily.
With that success under my belt I took the entire wheel, hub, tire assembly and mounted it in the latch and did the same on my good hub.
Mounted to the bike and all is well.

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