I think that's describing the 2LS T500 Titan / Cobra front drum, not the GT750 Le Mans aka Water Buffalo 4LS item - I've got both, just got my T500 drum in the mail this morning - what a beauty! ONE thing occurs to me, looking at all of these bits & pieces. The drum shoes aren't as wide as the linings in the hub proper - Plus the T500 shoes are identical to the GT750 shoes only they're wider - SO I'm thinking of cutting down some Titan shoes for a wider version to fit into my GT 4LS hub. I'm sure there's gotta be some tolerance in there, but hey they're both expensive hard to find shoes these days, so maybe it's worth the price depending on which is cheaper at the time. But yeah - the GT shoes side by side are ... lemme measure this up - 49.5mm, or 24.25mm each - whereas the T500 are 39.5mm - Ergo the GT drum is only 20% stronger (correct me if I'm wrong! I'm lousy at math when I'm high....) - But let's say one could get a couple more MM's out of them shoes, especially when the drum is newly machined - which mine always are when I put a new hub on a bike (The T500 is for a Honda Passport/Cub racer project that's really only a burned up frame and drawings at this point - looking at 15"-16" rims, narrow though like a 1.85 front and 2.15 rear - Not like the GT hub which is in a 3x16 Borrani with 3.5x16 super-Akront rear, with maxi-scooter tires 110/70 & 140/70, in a KZ440LTD with all NOS belt-drive, both versions 1.25" wide 22:65 with cast Iron rear pulley and 1" wide 22:60 with Aluminum-Iron composite pulley, modified H1 triple gas tank with KZ440 tunnel, rear-sets clip-ons etc etc etc.... It's for my Ex-Daughter's sweet-sixteen, hence the sweet sixteen inch rims - Had to replace all of the above parts due to a house-fire in March, now that I've collected them again I've gotta look at a new KZ440LTD which is ridiculous I ought to be looking at a CB350F or a Duck 350 single for the money I've spent on these wheels ha ha ha ahh - you either laugh or you cry!)
My POINT is that these Suzuki hubs are waay overpriced - partly my fault for what I paid for my GT hub the SECOND TIME 'ROUND ... ugh ... Though I did low-ball on my first copy, & I got the T500 for around $50 complete, $25 for shoes, some $30-$40 for delivery from the States to Canada so that's a given extra expense - my point being, you wanna clean these damned things up anyway so buy a crappy copy and invest in a re-chroming of the hardware - and a beat up copy like my first GT hub is a good candidate for cutting & drilling. Well, NOW it's a good candidate for a door stop. Ha-ha. Or a garden ornament. Or an exaggeration about drum brakes over-heating. But it WAS a good candidate for ventilation & lightening up.
But yeah, I mean - there's got to be some improvement to be had from running the wider shoes in there. My T500 lining here is 42.5-43mm wide - the GT hub has probably double the over-kill due to the dual linings - Mine is at Buchanan's right now but I'll get some valid measurements soon.
Oh, and I've got big ideas about running an electronic speedo pickup down the length of an OEM mechanical cable sheath. Then running the electronic speedo inside of a case for a mechanical speedo too.
Gotta go for now!
-S.
