Brake shoe hold down spring retaining pins

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Brewynz
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Brake shoe hold down spring retaining pins

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Just rebuilt my brakes on a 63 Monza. Did a search of the forum before I made this post, but I learned that the brake shoe spring retaining pins from the Napa replacement kit are too long. You will need to use your original pins if you buy that kit.

Unrelated to this, but if you're doing one you're probably doing the other, does anyone have a local source for all of the other brake springs? I was surprised at how brittle some of the springs I replaced were, and want to go ahead and just replace all of them. Will be going through one of our specialty vendors if I can't find a local shop or chain.
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Re: Brake shoe hold down spring retaining pins

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Re: Brake shoe hold down spring retaining pins

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It seems that to get all of the aftermarket springs you need to order several kits, hold down, return and then all of the others. A vendor might have all of them in one kit.
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Frank DuVal
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Re: Brake shoe hold down spring retaining pins

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JO, those fit the 1 3/4" width early shoes? :dontknow:
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Re: Brake shoe hold down spring retaining pins

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Mathew is a BOT.
Currently own: '66Monza Coupe, '67Monza Vert, '67A/C Monza Sport Sedan
Have owned: '61Monza Coupe, '62Monza Wagon, '63Spyder, '65 Corsa
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