Rear brake job 'gotchas'....

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Sep 28, 2003 | 05:30 PM

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mabar

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Re: Rear brake job 'gotchas'....

http://auto.howstuffworks.com/drum-brake.htm

"Cal Wheeler" <cal@whee.ler> wrote in message
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> Mike Romain wrote:
>
> > A friend of mine that spent 4 hours doing one side of his rear brakes
> > and had me help him on the other side that took me 20 minutes a couple
> > months ago just came over today because of noises and a low pedal.
> >
> > He just had a tranny rebuild and had a clunk that happened so was over
> > last week and I nailed a bad CV joint for him. This was new and his
> > brake pedal was dropping on him.
> >
> > Well, he had put the brake together like the book 'showed' and 'just'
> > like a photo Bill ------ showed a bit ago with the pull cable adjusting
> > arm cocked on the star wheel ready to fire.
> >
> > When I did the other side, I pulled the arm off the star wheel to keep
> > the cable tight while installing the drum with a fully compressed star
> > wheel. The arm comes up into place as you do the basic adjust from the
> > back with a screwdriver through the rubber grommet filled hole.
> >
> > His cable fell of the pivot slider and the adjusting arm fell down on
> > the brake drum, spring loaded and almost cut it in half with the groove
> > it made.....
> >
> > We checked the other side that I did and the star wheel rod already was
> > more than 1/4" threaded out and working perfectly.
> >
> > Watch out for that folks, when you do a drum brake job, make sure the
> > cable is in the track and has pressure on it when you wiggle the drum
> > on.
>
>
> You've got me all paranoid now! ;-) I checked; mine are good.
>