Re: Brake shoe break-in procedure?

"jim beam" <spamvortex@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>
> as for the drums, why were they turned?  my civic has 176k miles, and
the 
> drums are /well/ within limits.

Beats me. This is the first time I have done the rear brakes myself.
I took the drums to a local shop this afternoon. They measured them
and pronounced them out-of-limit. Unfortunately I don't have a suitable
caliper to verify this myself.