The drum brakes on a trailer's wheels exercise brake shoes that are installed yet passion the brake shoes on most cars and trucks. The shoes drag against the brake drum when applied to halt movement. Replacing these brakes embrace disconnecting the comprehensive meeting of shoes and springs that drudgery well-balanced. You again should moderate the springs, as they can wear down from the heat.2. Pop the grease cap off the hub using a mallet and a booming Apartment lodgings screwdriver as a wedge. Pull the cotter pin absent of the hub with pliers, then loosen the drum's castle follower with a socket or ratchet wrench and remove the drum.
1. Lift the trailer with a floor jack and ease it on jack stands. Remove the wheels on both sides of the trailer.
A complete replacement brake shoe place should bear replacement springs.
Instructions
Removal
3. Disconnect the two upper repay springs using a spring Emigration object on the central pin, removing the pin and the washer underneath it.
4. Remove the hold-down spring for the rear brake shoe and then pull away this shoe slightly to remove the adjuster rotate at the backside.
5. Unscrew and remove the front shoe's hold-down spring and remove the front shoe, then remove the rear shoe.
6. Twist the disconnected adjuster screw until it is completely closed.
7. Disinfected and mop off the backing put with a rag.
Installation
8. Install the replacement front shoe on the backing plate, using the top retaining pin to fulcrum it into position and engaging it with the push rod near the Centre, and fasten its own retaining pin and spring.
9. Connect the rear shoe to the front one using the replacement lower spanner spring and then reconnect the star adjuster screw to the plate and shoes, forming trustworthy the star circle points toward the trailer's rear stop.
10. Connect the rear shoe to the upper pin and then install the shoe's keeper pin and the ahead replacement answer spring. Install the broad Apartment lodgings washer and the moment send spring with your spring instalment part.
11. Pull outside the plug in the back of the plate and turn the star trundle with a screwdriver until the shoes barely avoid touching the gone of the drum meeting.
12. Corner the drum back on the meeting and tighten the castle nut. Tighten it to about 35 foot-pounds while turning the drum forward to seat the bearings, then loosen the nut to finger tight and install a new cotter pin.
13. Reinstall the dust cap, tapping it with a hammer and wood block.
14. Reconnect the wheels after changing both brakes.
15. Adjust the star wheel with your screwdriver while turning the brake drum until the drum drags, then turn the wheel the other way until it just stops dragging.
16. Lower the trailer off the jack stands.
