Post by Dickers on Jun 17, 2016 14:33:15 GMT
Hi Phillip,
If the caravan is of 1980s vintage, have a look at the chassis. If it is made of steel channel and memory serves me right, the chassis manufacturer may have been B&B and used UK manufactured car wheels. They were usually Ford Anglia wheels. It follows that you may be able to source some shoes by going down that route. It would need very careful checking as, at a distance it is impossible to tell what they are. If it is a Bailey caravan, Bailey should be able to tell you what model it is from the serial no. If it is an aluminium chassis or thin galvanised steel, it is most likely to be an ALKO chassis. In that case, I don't know what wheels they used, probably supplied to their specification just to make things awkward.
An other suggestion I can offer is that you take the brake shoes off the caravan and take them to a car parts emporium and ask if they can supply a set of shoes to the same pattern. I've always found the parts dealers to be very helpful. It seems they like a challenge although the majority need the vehicle make model and year so that they can look it up in their parts supplier's catalogues. This may be your best solution.
In the good old days, I remember my father relining the brake shoes on his motorbike by knocking the rivets out and riveting the new friction material on to the old shoes with copper rivets. Them were the days!
Sorry I can't be more helpful.
Dickers.
If the caravan is of 1980s vintage, have a look at the chassis. If it is made of steel channel and memory serves me right, the chassis manufacturer may have been B&B and used UK manufactured car wheels. They were usually Ford Anglia wheels. It follows that you may be able to source some shoes by going down that route. It would need very careful checking as, at a distance it is impossible to tell what they are. If it is a Bailey caravan, Bailey should be able to tell you what model it is from the serial no. If it is an aluminium chassis or thin galvanised steel, it is most likely to be an ALKO chassis. In that case, I don't know what wheels they used, probably supplied to their specification just to make things awkward.
An other suggestion I can offer is that you take the brake shoes off the caravan and take them to a car parts emporium and ask if they can supply a set of shoes to the same pattern. I've always found the parts dealers to be very helpful. It seems they like a challenge although the majority need the vehicle make model and year so that they can look it up in their parts supplier's catalogues. This may be your best solution.
In the good old days, I remember my father relining the brake shoes on his motorbike by knocking the rivets out and riveting the new friction material on to the old shoes with copper rivets. Them were the days!
Sorry I can't be more helpful.
Dickers.