[dhcarguy]

In my 65 GTO shop manual, The rear brake assembly picture is calling the shorter shoe the secondary shoe and longer shoe the primary shoe. Is that correct??
It shows the Parking brake lever connecting to the Short shoe which means the short shoe would be mounted to the rear of the car.
I always thought the short shoe mounts towards the front of the car.
Which way is correct?

Thanks, Dave

[67drake]

Not that I call them by name often, but I always thought of the lead/front shoe as primary, and the longer rear shoe as secondary.
I just found conflicting info on my ‘69 400. Chiltons manual from way back then listed it as 10.5 compression, all other sources list it at 10.0. So mistakes happen.

[OG68]

Factory service manuals prior to 69 had the primary and secondary shoes reversed. The description was correct, but the photo was not.



This was rectified in 69.
Short shoe to the front (Primary), long shoe to the rear (secondary)

[dhcarguy]

Thanks 67drake, You are correct. The pictures in my 65 manual are wrong.

Thank you for posting those pictures OC68. I printed them out and will put them in my manual.
.
Dave

[george kujanski]

I just think that the longer shoe is towards the rear of the car such that during normal braking the long shoe is driven up against the top anchor.

George