Thanks for the flame retardant reply Jim. I expected the gates of hell to open upon me when I mentioned leafs in the same sentance as museum objects more than the fear of drumbrake enthusiast gathering upon me. But the keyword to all of this brake nonsense is Reliability and easy servicing. The thing with drum brakes is that they have the habit of not getting all the crap out but easyly getting it in. Everytime I think of servicing a drumbrake setup I buy everything you can buy for it because you need to replace so many springs and pins and crap. They never work that good you notice them and after years and years of use and abuse they are so f****d up beyond recognicion you need to replace almost everything except the backing plate.
I'm not saying they are totaly useless, they where great in the 50's, but hey the 50's were great, ask Elvis. <img src="/forums/images/graemlins/cheers.gif" alt="" />