Brake Shoe: Service and Repair

Brake Shoes

Material:

Removal and Installation
1. Remove the parking brake control boot.
^ Release the boot clip.
^ Lift the boot upward and over the parking brake control handle.

2. NOTE: Make sure the rear brakes are cool to the touch.

Move the parking brake control to the fully released position.
3. Relieve the tension on the parking brake cable.
^ Loosen the adjustment nut.
4. Remove the brake drum.
5. Remove the hold-down clips and pins.

6. NOTE: Do not allow the wheel cylinder pistons to fall out of the wheel cylinder bore.

Disconnect the brake shoes from the wheel cylinder.
^ Using a suitable tool, hold the wheel cylinder pistons in place.
7. Release the shoes from the backing plate.
8. Disconnect the parking brake cable.
^ Push the lever inward.
^ Release the cable from the lever.
9. Remove the lower return spring.
10. Remove the upper return spring.
11. Remove the primary shoe from the strut and brake shoe adjuster.
^ Pull the shoe outward.
^ Disconnect the strut and adjuster.
^ Release the strut and adjuster.

12. NOTE: The strut support spring is under tension.

Remove the secondary shoe from the support.
^ Move the strut downward.
^ Disconnect the parking brake return spring.
13. Clean, check and apply silicone grease to the brake shoe contact points on the brake backing plate.

14. NOTE: Make sure that all mating surfaces are free of foreign material.

To install, reverse the removal procedure.

15. NOTE: The internal auto-adjuster must be set and the brake shoes centralized to the brake drum.

Adjust the brake shoes.
16. Adjust the parking brake cable.