Rear Brake Shoes: Removal
WARNING: This page is about a different car, the 1994 Eagle Vision, 1994 Dodge Intrepid, 1994 Chrysler New Yorker, 1994 Chrysler LHS, and 1994 Chrysler Concorde. However, it is still accessible from the selected car via links, so may be relevant.
- Raise and support vehicle. Remove wheel. Remove cap from center of drum. Remove hub nut. Remove drum and hub assembly (if assembly is difficult to remove, unseat adjuster lever using small screwdriver, and loosen adjuster wheel).
- Remove automatic adjuster spring from automatic adjuster lever. Rotate automatic adjuster screw assembly so each shoe assembly moves out far enough to be free of wheel cylinder boots.
- Disconnect parking brake cable from parking brake lever.NOTE: Disconnect parking brake cable ONLY one side at a time. If both sides are disconnected, extreme effort will be required to connect parking brake cables to equalizer or parking brake lever.
- Remove both lower brake shoe assembly-to-anchor plate springs. Remove both shoe assembly-to-backing plate hold down springs. Remove brake shoe assemblies, upper shoe-to-shoe return spring, automatic adjuster and adjuster lever from backing plate as an assembly.
- After brake shoe assemblies are removed from backing plate, separate brake shoe assemblies from automatic adjuster mechanism. Remove brake shoe automatic adjuster lever from leading brake shoe assembly.