Wednesday, December 23, 2015

Brake Drum experience

Did this last week and my e-brake is no longer useless. Bonus less brake sqeeks. Here are some pics I took during to process. I was confused on what the bolts were for at first. Thinking I would hammer them off I broke the thread on the drum so got a bigger bolt and drilled it in pushing it off the car. 



The bolts go all the way through pushing them off. It will make a pop sound and brake dust will fly.
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Rear facing shoe.
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Front facing shoe looked slimmer than the rear.

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After all is sanded,cleaned,and put back together this part with the teeth needs to be turned from behind the drum with a flat head screw driver until you fell drag on the rotor.



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The plug you want is pill shaped. It will take a few trys to get it lined up. When tightening you'll hear clicks but not when loosening.

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This side was tricky because a shim was needed for an alignment so I broke off the excess to get to the plug.

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Hope someone can now do their brake cleaning faster by learning from my mistakes/spots I was stuck on.