Hey I am replacing my rear shoes and all the hardware. This thing in the red circle was snapped off on both sides and not attached to anywhere. I was wondering if it goes where I put it.

Thanks,
Roach

 

****.. i cant help ya roach, but this reminds me that i have to do mine.damit

 

I have my brakes apart right now. Ill go look. 2 min.

 

no it latches to the top part

 

it looks right to me
the other end of the silver part beneth it should be resting on those teeth.

 

really? mine look different

 

Mine is a heck of alot rustier. I was leaking fluid through the cylinder.

 

Compare it to the other side and go from there

 

top part of what? when i pulled the brakes off it was jammed under the brake bar.

 

yea thats right andy

 

the spring on the cable looks right, but yeah the bottom part of the thing held buy the yellow spring should be contacting the teeth on the adjuster wheel. does that even make sense?

 

okay, i see where it all goes. thanks.

 

it looks to me, the adjuster is in backwards

 

yea now i see it, its backwards, i wasnt paying attention to that, i was lookin at the cable

 

Thanks guys I got it just need to bleed them. Got my Bilstiens on too!

 

This is why u do 1 side at a time. Drum brakes have a way of screwin everyone up

 

I did do one side at a time that thing in the circle was snapped off on BOTH sides so I had no idea where it went it was kinda just sitting at the bottom of the drum! lol

 

Andy, what types of tools did you use? Anything specific?

 

my self-adjuster cables have long rusted in 2. i just manually adjust the brakes every spring/fall tire change. i had a leaking r.r. wheel cylinder this spring, was able to rebuild it while still on the truck. so far-so good.

 

I plan on replacing my rear brakes soon.....I'll take pictures for future reference.

 

Thanks Mark yea we ended up making it do that after the picture was taken!

 

I've never had break issues....and I've replaced front and rear on my 97 ranger...front and rear on a 96 SL2 saturn and my old 90 nissan pickup...if you do it one at a time you can allways just copy what the otherside looks like...you don't even need to bleed your breaks...you just have to compress them back with c clamps or any other type of clamping tool...wrench or what not...keep that in mide for next time.

 

You DO have to bleed the brakes if you replace the wheel cylinders like I did.

 

If you put all new hardware back in there and self adjusters make sure you back up quickly a couple times and stop quickly so they adjust.