2000 Toyota Tundra How To Remove Locked Up Drum Brake

Its not a hard job just a lot of little parts.

2000 toyota tundra how to remove locked up drum brake. The wheel cylinders unbolt from behind with a 10mm and you will need a 10mm wrench to remove the hard line into it. The sprocket is just intended to back them off to remove the drums if the shoes have worn grooves into them and wont slide off. I attached the DIY procedure for refurbing the bellcrank.

It broke loose and came off. Insert a metric bolt into the two holes on the rear brake drum. Remove tire and pop off drum and remove PB Cables.

The video is ap. Jump to Latest Follow. Sure brakes were ok for a coupe days then started acting up again not as bad as before but still not good.

In this video Ill show you how to diagnose a locked up brake caliper andor dragging brakes for one wheel. Shop messed up rear drums. I sell quite a few clean and adjust rear brake jobs.

Or you can jack up your rear wheels and do it that way also. You crawl under behind the brakes and pop out the oval shaped rubber plug on the brake backing plate. Hose the whole thing out with brake cleaner and clean the shoesdrums with it right before you put the drum back on.

Symptoms are rear brakes tend to stick and lock just before coming to a complete stop and it takes quite a bit of throttle to get moving sometimes preceded by a loud bang from the back when the motor overpowers a stuck rear brake. Take that off and you can get a flathead screwdriver up there and adjust them. Remove the caliper from the caliper bracket.