[VB] Brake shoes

[david raistrick]

> The stopping power does not seem to be improved with the new shoes. Also the
> parking brake really needs a hard pull to keep the bus from rolling down my
> driveway. Not much friction being generated.

new shoes definitely need some miles to break in.  you can (carefully)
bed them in like disc breaks by doing some aggresive stopping.    just
dont overheat them (but get them hot).  then let them cool (no parking
brake!) down, after that you should see a marked improvement.

that said - I'm not a fan of semi-metallics for the most part, I
totally prefer the performance of the traditional organics for vw
drums (and they dont eat the drum as bad either).