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I think there are still places that can balance tires on the car. Just make sure you mark the tire to the drum. I was also wondering if that condition is on all the drums, I would suspect someone at some time whacked them there to get them to come off. Probably not knowing that was the weakest part of the drum but thinking the outer edge will cause a little twisting up on the other side. Lord knows we've all seen, shall I say experiments that went wrong.That was supposed to be the lip that went around the lip on the backing plate to keep water and dirt out. If the drum is otherwise OK the only problem I would see is that with it missing random chunks it may be a little out of balance compared to one without the missing chunks. I'd probably use it and see how it drives once you have it back together, new tires on and can see how it feels and handles.
I second Frankie's recommendation on the NCM insurance. I have had them cover a variety of cars, including multiple Corvettes. Just be sure the restrictions are acceptable to you. I exceeded their 6000-mile yearly limit after driving my 2020 home from Museum delivery, and had to move it to my daily driver car coverage for a year.The Corvette picture was post-accident., it was repaired to stunning perfection after the wreck by an expert with 50 years in the business. and becane a better car in many ways for the effort..so no worries... As an aside I hgihly recommend National Corvette Museum classic car insurance - they issued checks totalling about $66,000 to repair the Corvette with no questions asked. They insure ALL classics and limited production cars including my 2002 Thunderbird.
I had heard of the rollover mileage comments, but you will not find anything in the contract referencing any such provision. Having spent over 40 years in contract analysis, if it ain’t in writing, I will not depend on it. There is an old contract saying along the lines of, “a verbal agreement is not worth the paper it is written on”. I see by you comment about it not being well documented, that you were concerned about it, and I would agree with you.Then NCM mileage limitations "carry over"; if you have a 6,000 mile limit and only use 4,000 then next year you have 8,000 available - a feature often overlooked and not well documented. And yes, I was on the Corvette Forum frequently but not recently (long story).
That's true.. and irritating. When I looked at the descriptions of shoes most, if not all, of them said the shoes where ground to proper arc. What I ordered, from Centric, clearly had never ever been ground to anything. They obviously took the bulk lining of length, width, and thickness spec, bonded it to the shoes, and shipped em without ever grinding. In addition, the surface of the lining was somewhat rough rather than the smooth surface you see on well used linings. All of which made them a pain in the behind during the first many miles. I had to do a lot of manual filing to help with the seating-in process to get rid of high spots on the leading edge.A further word aboit brake drums. In tje good old days shops would pre arch tje brakes fot proper mating right from the start. Nobody does that anymore so itt takea a 150 miles or so to get full contact braking.
I am looking for brake drum specification for inspection- need our gal size thickness!I will measure the drum thickness and go from there. Thanks for all of the input.