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Adjust the brakes until the wheel makes about one revolution before stopping. A lever is attached to one of the shoes to adjust the notched wheel.
Check The Brake.
How to adjust brake shoes on drum brakes. Spin the wheel by hand as you operate the adjuster. You will hear the shoes scraping on the drumthis is normal. Give the tire a hard spin every few clicks.
Adjust the brakes until the wheel makes about one revolution before stopping. In this video Ill show you how to adjust your drum brakes using the star adjuster to get just the right amount of drag on your drum brake shoesWatch the En. Spin the drum by hand.
If the tension is increasing youre going the right way to adjust the brake shoes. If the tension is decreasing and the drum is spinning more freely youre un-adjusting the shoes. Go back and use the spoon to turn the star wheel in the opposite direction.
Install the drum over the brake shoes and use two lug nuts to make sure it is flush with the wheel hub mounting. If it isnt square on the hub you wont be able to achieve a proper shoe adjustment. Turn the drum and listen for a rubbing sound.
How To Adjust Drum Brakes In Your Car 1Removing The Brake Drum. Once you remove the car wheel use a small chisel with a hammer to remove the damaged dust. You should use regular water to do away with the harmful dust particles and allow it to dry.
Check The Brake. Part 2 of 3. Adjust the drum brake Step 1.
Access the drum brake adjustment star wheel. The drum brake adjuster is located under an access cover in the. Adjust the star wheel.
Turn the star-shaped adjuster a few times. If it does not stop turning due to the pads. If the drum has a little friction from the brake shoes when you slide it on thats good.
So before bolting the wheels on try to adjust the star wheel so there is at least a little friction but not too much. Do the same for both rear drums. Adjusting rear drum brakes is a way to keep your car brake system working for much longer and balanced.
How To Adjust Drum Brakes Knowing fully well the impacts of not adjusting your rear drum brakes it is equally important to note that this could be a tasking activity to carry out on your car braking system. Drum brake adjuster in operation. In Figure 7 you can see that as the pad wears down more space will form between the shoe and the drum.
Each time the car stops while in reverse the shoe is pulled tight against the drum. When the gap gets big enough the adjusting lever rocks enough to advance the adjuster gear by one tooth. The adjuster has threads on it like a bolt so that it unscrews a little bit when it turns lengthening to fill in the gap.
You should feel the teeth of the star wheel. With the tip of the adjustment tool between the teeth of the star wheel press down on the end of the adjustment tool Turning the adjustment wheel to loosen or tighten the shoes against the brake drum. Step 4 - Adjust your Brake.
As you adjust the star wheel youll need to know how much to tighten it. The adjusting stars one for either shoe will be visible through either a hole in the drum youll need to turn the drum to find them or through two holes in the backing plate depending on the year of your car. The adjusting stars can be turned by levering them with a screwdriver.
Turning them clockwise tightens the shoes to the drum. Learn how to replace your drum brakes including the wheel cylinder and bleeding the brakes. This is the only video you need to watch.
Make sure the brake shoes are clean and free of contamination. Slide the new or re-machined drum over the wheel studs and shoes onto the hub. If the drum wont fit adjust the star wheel to collapse the shoes farther in so the drum slides over.
If you replaced the wheel cylinders bleed them now. Drum brakes foundation brakes may be used at each wheel. The most common type is the S-cam drum brake so called because of the mechanism that applies force to the brake shoes.
Brake drums are located on each end of the vehicles axles. The wheels are bolted to the drums. The braking mechanism is inside the drum.
Towards the bottom of the brake backing plate theres a small rectangular hole that gives access to the brake adjuster wheel. Grab a screwdriver or better still a dedicated drum brake adjuster tool as its a slightly different shape and much better suited to the job and tighten up the brakes until the drum cant move any more. A lever is attached to one of the shoes to adjust the notched wheel.
The lever is usually part of the parking brake assembly. There is no pressure on the adjusting screw when the brakes are applied allowing the lever to turn the notched wheel. A return spring is used to contain the adjuster as with the BendixWagner type.
On Toyota Echo models equipped with drum type rear brakes its occasionally necessary for owners to adjust the brake shoes. The system consists of a complex series of springs and levers that automatically adjust the brakes as you drive the car but sometimes the brakes fall too far out of adjustment for the self-adjusting feature to work properly.