Been trying to find shoes for the front of my 54 Lincoln Capri. Rears are all over the place online but front are nowhere to be found. Any ideas?

Brad
Sierra Vista Arizona
1954 Lincoln Capri

Take the shoe measurements to a good parts store. They should be able to find some that will fit. My local NAPA is always good for matching.

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MoonShadow, 292 w/McCulloch, 28 Chrysler Roadster, 354 Hemi)
Manchester, New Hampshire

The Lincoln Mercury Old Parts Store has them but they are pricey @ $175.00.

What about relining them? Is that done anymore? Or not worth the trouble?

Brad
Sierra Vista Arizona
1954 Lincoln Capri

I called O'Reilly's asking for the front shoes. I told them I can find rears but not fronts. He said we got them. Order today and they'll be here in the morning. That was yesterday. I went there to pick them up. $37? What a bargain. I asked him to look up the tears to see the difference. He looked at my order and said they were the rear ones. Couldn't find any numbers for the front ones either. What a pisser. I'll probably go with the kanter $70 ones, just to be sure I get them. I have the wheels off the car and the engine should be back next week, so I want to make sure I can get it back together again to move it outta the garage so I can get the engine in the garage then push the car in to prep for engine install.

Brad
Sierra Vista Arizona
1954 Lincoln Capri

I don’t know about AZ, but up here relining shoes is a truck shop deal. Or maybe a truck place that does a lot of motor home work. There’s still some older units out there with drums in the real heavy stuff.

You might try posting that on the HAMB, just a “54 Lincoln reline brake shoes”. There’s some members in that area that might post an answer. You a member there?

miker
55 bird, 32 cabrio F code
Kent, WA
Tucson, AZ

I believe I am a member. I've been mostly on the y block forum since I am mostly doing engine work now plus there doesn't seem to be a lot of old Lincoln people on this or hamb. Kinda a specialty vehicle. Thought I might get some info on some other sites out there that might carry parts for it.
One of the shoes I took off is almost like new, lining remaining I mean. The other was almost gone. Seems like the brakes were out of adjustment. If they were both almost full, I would look into cleaning them up and roughing them up to reuse them, but... Twasn't to be.

Brad
Sierra Vista Arizona
1954 Lincoln Capri

Did miss something? These are the shoes you need for $70 from a well known old car parts shop. 
Front and rear shoes appear to be 12" in diameter. You would still need to measure the shoe width as they may vary. 
https://www.kanter.com/i-30563729-brake-shoes-1954-1957-lincoln-all-models-front-set-of-4.html#!year%3D1954%7C%7Cmake%3DLINCOLN
Found this listing at Kanter out of NJ.




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Looking for McCullouch VS57 brackets and parts. Also looking for 28 Chrysler series 72 parts. And early Hemi parts.

MoonShadow, 292 w/McCulloch, 28 Chrysler Roadster, 354 Hemi)
Manchester, New Hampshire

Front shoe width should be 2 1/2".  Rear shoe width 2".

Yes. They seem to be the same except for the width. Front are wider by maybe 1/2"

Brad
Sierra Vista Arizona
1954 Lincoln Capri