This is important mostly when carrying or towing heavy loads and when driving down long, steep grades. When shoes press on the outside of the drum, it is usually called a clasp brake. You could use the nut which held the cap and flanged washer in place, or a thinner locknut. There's no such thing as disk or rim brake levers; there's just long-pull (v-brakes, most discs) and short-pull (road brakes, centerpulls, canti's, u-brakes, "road" discs, drum/roller brakes.) It may not display this or other websites correctly. However, on cars that still have them on the rear, thats not a big concern since, on nearly all vehicles, the front wheels provide the vast majority of braking force in hard stops. Enter saving edits is a bad idea. is pressed against a secondary material that rotates along with the wheel. Some of our partners may process your data as a part of their legitimate business interest without asking for consent. The Rollerbrake does not, however, tend to pull the wheel out of the fork as disc brakes do.