Oh please…That was a design issue with ONE vehicle. I’ve had many issues with drum brakes over the years. Ever try to remove a drum brake where the E-brake is stuck? How about one where the adjuster froze? Worse one I ran across was one of the springs broke and lodged itself between the shoe and the drum. The more parts there are the more potential problems.
I am not a mechanic. I believe I can do a brake job on the rear axle of my Caprice in 30 minutes if I hustled. I generally don’t like to rush and I like to relax and marvel at everything, I do think if I really pushed it I could do that though.
Full disclosure, my drum brakes are generally pretty clean. When I rotate the tires I tend to take off the drums and dump out the dust that was sequestered by the drum so my brakes are generally pretty clean and I dont allow my backing plates to get in bad shape since I always lube the shoe contact points when I do a brake job.
If I did a quick and dirty shoe slap I am sure I can do it in 15 a side. I do have all the proper tools.
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Yeah, I’ll get right on that as soon as I find a car around here with drum brakes.
Yes. I believe that at that time NAPA was using the same remanufacturer as many other suppliers, and that may explain the recurring failure. I was using Centric at the time and their top-tier line was good and I don’t recall any repeat failures of that RF inboard lower piston sticking.
And as I stated - I knew several people who were using the so-called reman fix and NON worked. Go to a 4runner forum and find out for yourself.
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