I’m at Witt’s end with these rear brakes. Car is a 62’ Fury. 10” drums without the lock nut (later make?). In the spring I replaced the shoes. Found at the time there was no self adjusting Mechanism so I installed one. First time out I drove to town and back and when I returned the freshly painted drums were smoking. They had gotten so hot the paint burned off…
I verified the adjusters were on the correct side, changed the bottom shoe springs to something lighter, scufffed up the shoes, readjusted and then my transmission issues developed so I never got to test the brakes.
The guy that did my transmission work called one day to say my brakes were dragging. He found that after the car sat for awhile the brakes would release and not drag but once it was taken out again and driven the brakes would start dragging. He found that releasing the fluid pressure at the rear would release the brakes so assumed the rubber hose was collapsing inside. It would allow fluid through to activate the brakes but not allow the fluid pressure to release when the peddle was released.
I had him replace the hose, readjust everything and according to him they were working as they should afterwards.. Today I took it out for the first drive after getting it back and after a 15 mile drive when I got home the rear wheels were real hot! As in you couldn’t hold your hand on them hot..
What am I missing? Should the rears not use a self adjusting system? Since the drums are from a later year (no locking nut) could I have gotten the wrong shoes? Would the shoes be different for 62 and later 10” drums?
I didn’t replace the cylinders since they were not leaking. Could they be sticking (both?). I’m at a loss…..
I verified the adjusters were on the correct side, changed the bottom shoe springs to something lighter, scufffed up the shoes, readjusted and then my transmission issues developed so I never got to test the brakes.
The guy that did my transmission work called one day to say my brakes were dragging. He found that after the car sat for awhile the brakes would release and not drag but once it was taken out again and driven the brakes would start dragging. He found that releasing the fluid pressure at the rear would release the brakes so assumed the rubber hose was collapsing inside. It would allow fluid through to activate the brakes but not allow the fluid pressure to release when the peddle was released.
I had him replace the hose, readjust everything and according to him they were working as they should afterwards.. Today I took it out for the first drive after getting it back and after a 15 mile drive when I got home the rear wheels were real hot! As in you couldn’t hold your hand on them hot..
What am I missing? Should the rears not use a self adjusting system? Since the drums are from a later year (no locking nut) could I have gotten the wrong shoes? Would the shoes be different for 62 and later 10” drums?
I didn’t replace the cylinders since they were not leaking. Could they be sticking (both?). I’m at a loss…..