Re: Front brakes on a car

Posted by MattOney on September 06, 2004 at 10:36:42 from (66.82.9.71):

In Reply to: Re: Front brakes on a car posted by TheRealRon on September 06, 2004 at 08:53:05:

Well I"m still confused, which isn"t hard to do!

This has been a problem ever since I got the truck, so I went ahead and replaced everything last year to see if that would fix it, naturally it didn"t. When I put them together, I only did one side at a time, not starting the other one until the drum was back on the first. That way I wouldn"t use the other one as a reference, get confused, and screw something up.

Now, when Allan said something about installing the self-adjuster backwards, I think by that he means the star wheel. There"s only one way my star wheel can go in and work, otherwise it would be forever loosening and worthless wouldn"t it?

Other than that, the only thing I can tell you is I set it up the way the book tells me to do it for the left side, and it acts just like it used to. A prime example of this is when I first start my truck and put it in drive, it"ll idle down the driveway on its own, then there will be a really loud clunk, and it"ll stop, and after that I"ll have to fight a loaded brake all the way to town.

On a side note, sometimes I"ve noticed when I get to town, do whatever I have to do, and come home, on the way home I"ve noticed sometimes that brake won"t be locked anymore. I would think once it locked, it"d stay locked. What"s the deal with that?

Follow Ups:

• rear drum brakes on a car OR truck ChrisH 17:30:53 09/06/04 (0)
• Re: Front brakes on a car TheRealRon 11:35:51 09/06/04 (0)

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