[SOLVED] Drum brakes - do you disconnect the parking brake cable? Solved

Mad Roger · 2018-01-08T07:02:22+00:00

I haven't done drum brakes ever but I'm faced with these drum brakes where I'd just like to ask a couple of questions from those of you who have done drum brakes before. 1. I released the parking brake from the cabin and screwed these 2-inch long metric 8mm x 1.25mm threads bolts to pull the drum off the shoes. 2. After blowing the dust out (and not breathing it in), I could see that the front shoe was worn down to about a millimeter or less (after 175K miles), so I'm going to have to buy new shoes and replace them. 3. I measured the drum to be 2mm smaller than the maximum diameter: 4. Where the maximum diameter of 297mm was stamped on the drum itself: 5. It was hard to get the drum back on even with the parking brake released from the cabin, so I had to use a mallet to bang it back on: The main question is whether I'm supposed to *disconnect* the cable for the parking brake when working on the drums, and particularly when I put the new shoes on after I buy them. Also, only one shoe is worn, and it's the front shoe, and it's been on there for 175K miles, but I wonder if the shoes can be switched, so that the front shoe is in the rear and the rear shoe is in the front, since they wore so unevenly (sort of like rotating tires). But mainly I'm not sure what the procedure is for the parking brake cable. Can you advise?

Jan 08, 2018 Last reply: 8 years ago 81 Replies

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allisellis851 8 years ago

Carl Sagan said we are made of 'Star Stuff', I believe him. 1978 Dodge van I own, the right front brake hose had rubbed against something. I bought a new brake hose and put it on there. That was about 13 years ago.

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Mad Roger 8 years ago

Thanks for that link!

You are better than I am at finding it and I am not ashamed to admit it.

I'm not sure why, since I used epic's search engine and I gave it the full name of the report, so, you found it better than I did, I agree.

We all benefit from this information you found because it allows us, at the very least, to at least tell that a PBR pad is the exact same as a Metal Master pad which is exactly the same as an Axxis pad, since the numbers will be the same on all three (for example).

Bear in mind that this document generally covers 3 years, so that's from December 2014 to December 2017 which is as good as we can ask for.

thanks!

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