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Wider shoes are for the front, narrow for the rear. The shoes with the longer friction material go to the rear of the wheel, the shorter friction material to the front. Do one wheel at a time so you can refer to the opposite wheel for guidance and hope the last person did them right. ;-) The number of holes means little as long as the ones you need are present (size of holes also counts.)
Sidebar: FWIW, I don't know what your plan is but I would never replace shoes without new hardware and rebuilding the wheel cylinders. When I began working on cars professionally, a complete four wheel brake job included new shoes, new hardware, resurface four drums, repack wheel bearings with new seals, rebuild four wheel cylinders and bleed the system. Price? $49. (point not referring to my age but rather to what was considered a 'normal' brake job in the day)
Last edited by CBeav; Feb 23, 2016 at 10:42 PM.
Reason: Correction to text
The way I remember what shoes goes where is to remember the phrase "The tall shoe needs to see over the short shoe to see where there going"
In other words, the short shoes goes to the front.
Wider shoes are for the rear, narrow for the front.
Not sure if you are talking within each drum but clarification is needed to avoid confusion. In talking about front wheel brakes and rear wheel brakes, the wider shoes go on the front axle (2" on the F1) and the narrower shoes go on the rear axle (1 3/4" on the F1). Then, on self-energizing brakes (like on the F1) within each drum, the shoe with the shorter amount of lining goes toward the front of the drum and the shoe with the longer lining goes toward the rear of the drum. On non self-energizing brakes (like my F2), the lining material is typically the same length on both shoes.
Not sure if you are talking within each drum but clarification is needed to avoid confusion. In talking about front wheel brakes and rear wheel brakes, the wider shoes go on the front axle (2" on the F1) and the narrower shoes go on the rear axle (1 3/4" on the F1). Then, on self-energizing brakes (like on the F1) within each drum, the shoe with the shorter amount of lining goes toward the front of the drum and the shoe with the longer lining goes toward the rear of the drum. On non self-energizing brakes (like my F2), the lining material is typically the same length on both shoes.
Oops - I screwed that up. I meant to state that the wide shoes go on the front axle, the narrow shoes on the rear. I'll head back and correct that now. Glad you caught that, sometimes it seems no matter how many times I proofread my posts I still don't catch all the mistakes.
I stand corrected, I went back and enlarged the picture and whoever called me out on this is correct. Those parts are for the parking brake and not the self adjuster. Sorry for my earlier post. It sucks being old and using the cell phone while on the road.
I wonder if that also applies to the double anchor brakes?
The fact that the wider shoes go on the front axle and the narrower shoes go on the rear axle should be the same on single or double anchor. The short linings versus the longer lining discussion applies to self-energizing single anchor brakes such as those on the F1. Normally, double anchor brakes (like on the F2) have even length linings on both shoes.
