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    Posted: 03-April-2011 at 1:35PM

I read that the non-station wagons have 2 1/4" drums, but when I took mine off today to measure, they were closer to 2.5", like the station wagons. Am I measuring the right area, or did XR-7s get the station wagon size because of the "heavy duty" suspension?

 
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Measure across the brake shoe.
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Ah, okay, that makes sense. When I check the drum, too, it is 2.5" edge-to-edge, but the actual fully-finished surface is only about 2.25".
 
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