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thanks in this video we're going to show
you how to replace the rear drum brakes
on this 2011 Chevy silver Auto
1500 it's the same process on the Sierra
1500 from the same
year and we show you how to do the on
the passenger side but you're going to
want to do it on the driver's side as
well and it's pretty much the same
process the tools you'll need for this
is a jack and jack stands 22mm socket
and Ratchet flat blade screwdriver two
Vice Grip Pliers wire brush white grease
and a torque
wrench start out by carefully removing
the center cap with a flat blade
screwdriver and then if you don't have
the benefit a tools start with the
vehicle on the ground loosen the lug
nuts then raise support and secure the
vehicle and then moove the lug nuts
Wheel and
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Tire the wheel off there's one or two of
these little locking Rings uh use pliers
or flat blade screwdriver um twist them
usually you can just kind of break them
off and pull them off or if you want you
can try and get them off all the way and
then reuse
them okay you can if the um drum doesn't
come off you can use a long bolt M10 M10
in size you can see that there's two uh
holes just put the bolt into the drum
and tighten it up and it'll help you
pull the uh drum right
off and with the uh drum off you can
check the condition of the shoes see our
rear ones in pretty good shape uh same
with our front ones in pretty good shape
and also the condition of the drum
itself uh just run your finger on it
make sure that there's no deep grooves
or anything like
that okay there's brake tools
specifically for this purpose but we're
just using a pair of uh
vice grips and remove the spring and
we're going to remove this spring in
here also that bracket's going to come
out at the same
time and then there's a spring down
below um to remove and then basically
you just pull the
Springs back or forward or backward and
pull them
out now use using the visce pliers you
want to twist these retaining
Springs and you want to hold the pin on
the back of the
brakes and then you can just pull that
pin right
out and you can pull that brake shoe
back and pull your adjuster out of
there set that
aside now you want to do it on this side
put your finger on the back of that pen
twist the retaining spring out remove
the pen and remove the brake shoe now to
remove this brake shoe you need to get
the E BR out of there so using a large
flat blade screwdriver just pry that out
of that
slot man now to reinstall you don't need
two people here but it definitely helps
to have two people and with one of the
vice Grip Pliers you want to pull out
the center of that spring and with the
other set you want to grip further up so
that the spring can't come back
down and then you just want to kind of
pry that into the slot on that brake
shoe now around here you can see these
friction
points you want to take a wire brush and
just clean each of these
up and just apply a little bit of white
grease to each one
now you want to lift your brake shoe up
into place and you want to push that pen
through the
back and then Twist on that retaining
spring
and we'll fast forward as he does the
same thing on the other
side now you want to take that adjuster
and put that back into
place and push those two brake shoes
together to kind of secure
it take that little adjuster clip and
put that back into
place now you want to feed the
spring down behind that brake shoe you
can see it coming out the other side
there and you want to hook it on and
then using the vice Grip Pliers you want
to pull the other end the spring and
clip it onto the other brake shoe
and with this spring same thing but up
here on this little on these little
brackets on the brake
shoes and your lower spring Just Clips
into these two holes
now when you go to put the drum back on
if you realize it doesn't fit as you can
see
here it's just doesn't fit okay what you
want to do is take a flat blade
screwdriver and hold that adjuster clip
back and then just use that to turn that
adjuster right there and that will bring
your brake shoes
in adjusting it you want it to still
have just a little bit of resistance as
you push that drum on you can
see fits
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perfectly and we'll fast forward is he
puts the wheel back on and puts those
lug nuts back into place and then you
want to lower the
vehicle and tighten them the rest of the
way and you want to torque those lug
nuts to 100 foot- PBS and A Crossing
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pattern put the cap back on and repeat
for the other
side after you've done the brake work
get in test your pedal make sure it's
nice and firm do some uh slow stops from
5 and 10 mil hour before Road testing
your vehicle
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