Drum Brakes: How To Perform Maintenance
03-18-2003, 07:52 PM
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Rear Drum brakes -- how to change?
I'm going to replace the rotors and pads on my Accord tomorrow in the front, and I was wondering how do people w/ drums do maintainence on the rears? Do you do it @ all or do you just change the brake fluid and leave it like that? Aren't there some components that need to be replaced? Is it hard? I tried a search for the info but I didn't get any good results.
03-19-2003, 12:50 PM
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Haven't had drums since the '82 Rabbit 
It differs a bit from car to car, but you take off the drum & clean all the dust & crud from around the brake shoes. Clean the springs & levers & stuff while you're in there. Resurface the inside of the drum (kinda like resurfacing rotors). Replace the brake shoes (at least inspect for thickness...)
It differs a bit from car to car, but you take off the drum & clean all the dust & crud from around the brake shoes. Clean the springs & levers & stuff while you're in there. Resurface the inside of the drum (kinda like resurfacing rotors). Replace the brake shoes (at least inspect for thickness...)