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Keith, you are truly an ultimate warrior!

***Disclaimer: I am no mechanic or machinist and have never touched a brake lathe in my life. All I did was listen carefully and drive the car after the brakes were done, and they were as good as new.***

What you wrote there jogged my memory. I think he told me they had to "turn out" the center hole as well to get it to fit. But he used the same drum on the front. Cut off the studs to separate the drums, then drilled the stubs out of the hubs and replaced them with same diameter studs about 3/4" longer to accommodate chrome cap nuts for a wheel thicker than stock (I had shipped him some TT II's).

There was some back-and-forth while he was figuring out the right depth to cut the "shelf" off the inside of the drum and the lip off the inside edge. The center hole was already done when I got there, so I suspect that was a simple measurement. But there was some play in the shoes that he couldn't easily measure with the drum on. The drum would spin freely up on the lift with no wheel on, but when he put the wheel on and tightened the lug nuts, it started to rub. So he pulled the drum and shaved a little more off. He could tell where it had rubbed because it'd polish the edge of the shoe or the backing plate. Once he had a freely spinning wheel all together with the lug nuts torqued down, he saved the measurements and was able to cut as many as needed.

Chuck