Rear Drum Brake Shoes: Removal
- Raise and support vehicle. Remove rear wheel. Remove access plug from inside of brake backing plate for access to star wheel on automatic adjuster assembly.
- Using small screwdriver, hold adjuster lever away from star wheel on automatic adjuster assembly. Using brake adjuster or screwdriver, rotate star wheel until rear wheel spins freely with no brake drag. Brake adjuster or screwdriver must be moved upward to back off star wheel.
- Remove rear brake drum. Remove dust cap from center of rear hub assembly. Remove cotter pin, retainer and wave washer for access to rear hub assembly nut. Remove rear hub assembly nut and washer. Remove rear hub assembly with bearings from rear spindle.
- Remove spring from adjuster lever. See Figure
. Rotate star wheel on automatic adjuster assembly until each brake shoe is free from boots on wheel cylinder.NOTE: Disconnect parking brake cable on ONLY one side of vehicle at a time. If both sides of parking brake cable are disconnected at one time, extreme effort will be required to connect parking brake cable to parking brake lever.
- Disconnect parking brake cable from parking brake lever. Remove the brake shoe-to-anchor plate springs. Remove brake shoe-to-backing plate hold-down springs. Remove brake shoe assemblies, return spring, automatic adjuster assembly and adjuster lever from backing plate as an assembly.
- After brake shoes are removed from backing plate, separate brake shoes from automatic adjuster assembly. Remove adjuster lever from leading brake shoe.