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It's time for the Scotty Kilmer Channel, are your rear brake shoes worn out
making noise, well then today's your lucky day, because I'm going to show you how
to change brake shoes on a car, first thing you want to do is Jack it up in
the air, get it a few inches above the ground, and take off the wheel
then get a big hammer and whack the drum a few times to loosen it up, and off it
comes, now if you have a hard time getting the Drum Off, here's a trick that
works on lots of cars, you'll notice there's two holes, you can screw bolts in
these two holes and they'll force the drum off of the car if it's stuck, now if
you look inside on the drum brakes, you'll notice there's all kinds of Springs and
devices, so here's another trick only do one side at a time, while you're
working on this side, just have this side with the drum off, so you can look at
this side to see what you did wrong if you can't figure out where all the
springs go back, that way you'll always have a good reference point to see where
all the springs and bolts go back on, now the first thing you want to do is get a
pair of clippers and then pull the top spring off, you grab it and pull and off
it comes, then remove the retaining ring by using a pair of pliers, pushing it in
twisting it and twist it so it meets the hole and comes off, off it comes, then
this whole shoe just pulls right off and there's a spring on the bottom that you
just remove, then just take the other brake shoe off too, but you'll notice it's
got an emergency brake cable on it, to get the emergency cable off you use your
Clippers and squeeze them lightly at the very end and pull them out, then you
just twist it off it comes, then get your box a new brake shoes and transfer the
parts on this brake shoe to the new one, get all the springs and parts and put
them in the holes and hook them up and don't forget the little emergency brake
spring, it fits in here and then it clamps on right here, now before you
put the shoes back on, you'll notice on the backing plates here there's little
rub marks, you want to put some lubrication on them so they don't squeak
so you get some synthetic brake caliper grease and then apply it to all these
areas where you see they've been rubbing, on the left side and the right side and
grab the emergency brake cable pull it back, hold it in place and put it back on
the shoe here, then put the back shoe in position first and stick a
little spring back on, first put the spring on then get the little cover, line
it up and push it on, you might have to twist it a bunch of it eventually
it snaps on, then get the other shoe and put the bottom spring on the bottom
pull it over and connect the top, now comes the tricky part, you got to get the rod
in, so you get your Clippers and you grab the spring while you line it up in the
hole, and snap the spring in, it's hard but eventually
it goes in and of course you have to put the retaining spring on the other side
too and the last thing to do is to adjust the automatic adjuster, you need
to screwdriver, one pushed back the piece that holds it in place and the other
one you turn to loosen the adjuster because the new brake pads are thicker
then slide the drum back on and see how it feels, in this case it's dragging just
a little, which is exactly how tight you want it, you don't want it to be too
loose, if it was too loose you need to tighten it up by adjusting the adjuster
again, but in this case it's dragging just a little, which is just right, and you
don't need to be perfect in this either, because they have automatic adjusters on
it, whenever you slam the brakes on going backwards they adjust themselves
perfectly anyways and of course don't forget to do the other side, they work in
pairs,
so the next time you're quoted an expensive brake job, why not do it
yourself and remember if you've got any car questions
just visit Scotty Kilmer.com