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Location: Cochrane, Alberta | Just finished refinishing the entire front end of my 56 dodge from the firewall forward, and replaced shocks, tie rod ends, etc as well as blasted and refinished all parts.
Anyway, was assembling the drivers side front suspension today, and had a hell of a time getting the drum back on over the pads.
The pads were quite new, so I left them and didn't touch or tweak the 2 adjusters on the inside of the brake plate that "tilt" the pads thinking that would help the drum slide back on.
I have both brake bleed screws fully open to help the shoes fully collapse, but I still cant get the drum to go back onto the spindle.
Anyone have any tricks/suggestions on how to get this back on so that it will spin nicely on the new bearings? |
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Location: Cochrane, Alberta | Thanks for the tip, but I didnt change out the pins. |
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Location: Chestertown, NY ( near Lake George) | Move the shoes around a little to center the linings on the backing plates, common issue here. |
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Location: Southern Sweden - Sturkö island | Are the brake shoes arched to the drum diameter correctly? Take a measurement of the diameter of the mounted brake shoes and compare with the drum diameter. |
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Location: Cochrane, Alberta | Will do; they drum came off easily, and I didnt change anything so thats why I find it strange it doesnt want to go back on. |
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Location: WHEELING,WV.>>>HOME OF WWVA | just giggle em around a bit . they'll find center and slip back on as if they were made for it , especially when nothin was done/changed --------------------------------------------later |
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Location: Cochrane, Alberta | Played with it all afternoon and got the drum on pretty easily after fiddling around with the shoes, but I have quite a bit of friction between the shoes and the drum compared to the passenger side. When I rotate the tire backwards, I can turn it okay by hand but when I try and rotate the tire forwards, it locks up pretty good. That was before I tightened the bearing nut down, and I tightened it after to spec and still have alot of drag when trying to rotate forward; I'm guessing it wouldnt let you push the car.
Should I wait till I drop the engine in and see if a little bit of driving "seats" the pads where they should be? My worry is an overheated drum. |
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Location: Chestertown, NY ( near Lake George) | Step on the brake to center the shoes. |
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Location: Hay Lakes, Alberta, Canada | You might need to take the drums and shoes to a brake shop, and get the shoes ground to match the arc of the drums. I don't imagine that the new linings are an exact match to the old ones. Also, be careful of the dust from the new shoes...it most likely still contains asbestos, as most of the vintage style brake shoes use overseas material, which usually contain asbestos. |
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Exner Expert 19,174 posts. Neil passed away 18 Sep 2015. You will be missed, Neil!
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Location: bishop, ca | What, no SPAM, to enjoy, along with all of your nonsense? |
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Location: Upper Hunter NSW Australia | d500neil - 2015-07-13 7:48 PM
What, no SPAM, to enjoy, along with all of your nonsense?
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He's up to 86 posts already Neil, all within minutes of joining up here, gotta be one of the worst ones in recent memory?
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| you mentioned you 'didn't' tweek the adjusters before fitting your 'new' brake shoes, if so your new linnings will be fatter than your worn old ones and be a wider diameter to fit inside the same drum! slack the adjusters right off and see if the
drum drops over the new shoes easy, hit your pedal a few times to centre the brake shoes as you re-adjust the shoe gap up again, if this doesn't work you might have a component of your brake assembly miss placed? |
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getting brake drum back on
