Parking pad lining thickness?

[Brock]

Hi All,

I need to know the thickness of the parking pads. Does anyone have a new set they can measure accurately (either lining thickness with a depth gauge or overall thickness with a caliper)?

Mine are shot -- and the best option is to have them relined locally, as all the normal suppliers are out of stock (or way too expensive considering two-way shipping to the US).

The round recess at the mating surface complicates things, apparently.... Lathe work first, then bonding.

It would be easy enough to figure out a workable dimension, but everything is apart...

Thanks.

[RichardHawkins]

Brock,

My parking brake pads are new and unused from Sue Miller, but they are installed, making measurement difficult. I measured the overall thickness as 9mm, so the original imperial size was probably 3/8”.

Hope this helps,

Richard Hawkins

[stuart]

brand new old stock pads are 5,5mm from metal

regards Stuart

[h20hamelan]

Cant recall the suppliers, but you can get the liners/material.

https://fortnine.ca/en/kimpex-brake-pad ... gIupvD_BwE

Richard at Richmond is probably the only guy to have stock of new ones. Under $100 likely.

[Brock]

Richard at Richmond is probably the only guy to have stock of new ones. Under $100 likely.

Huh?

Thanks for the measurements, guys! The relining service quote was $150 (CAD). We're in an industrial services desert here.

I'd love to pay a sane figure for new pads.

[reb53]

I got some material of a local brake place and rivetted it on with countersunk brass rivets.
It's still working fine, ( well, as well as it ever did being an Elan hand brake), 40 years later.
Don't recall that recess though.
I'd simply fill it in with a washer to stop the brake lining flexing inwards, and stick a rivet in each corner.
Bear in mind that, unlike the main braking system, a sudden and unexpected failure of the hand brake is not only highly unlikely, but isn't going to send you off the road.
Think the whole reline cost me some time, and about 10 bux.

Ralph.

[Brock]

Great -- and sensible idea, Ralph. Thanks.

I will do it myself for sure now that I've thought about it for a couple days.

Glue may be easier to procure than brass rivets... Although I can make brass rivets! Ok, you win.

[reb53]

The brake place had the rivets.
May have been a throw back to the old days but you can always ask.