Sticky drum brakes
- Thread starter Cubey
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For me, adjusting takes less than 10 minutes. I jack up the rear, start spooning and spin the tire. I adjust them an listen for them to drag while spinning. I stop when the tire doesn’t move far when I spin it. Then move to the other side and repeat. It’s normally fairly easy to tell when it needs it again. For me it’s normally after an oh s**t stop when one of the idiots around here does something spectacularly stupid.......
Going around a blind curve yesterday (30 or 35 zone) I thought to myself, take my foot off the throttle because there is a cross street right after it. Sure enough a car almost ran in front of me. I braked but not hard, since I was expecting to find that. They stopped and I had the space to go around.
You admitted the cause of your problem in one of your posts, and a couple of people caught it. I will repeat it; You cannot clean contaminated brake shoes off and make them work. They get soaked with oil and you can't get it out. Once they get hot the old oil oozes out and they get gummy and grab.
If you are really cheap, the only way I have been able to make them work half-way after a brake fluid or oil episode, is to take a torch and carefully heat them to drive the oil out. It's a stinky mess, you have to keep scraping the the fried oil off. But I was in a situation at a plant where they were down and I had to do something to get them going.
If you are really cheap, the only way I have been able to make them work half-way after a brake fluid or oil episode, is to take a torch and carefully heat them to drive the oil out. It's a stinky mess, you have to keep scraping the the fried oil off. But I was in a situation at a plant where they were down and I had to do something to get them going.
