I have a 1997 Ford F-250 Light Duty which is the oddball with the 7 lug wheels. The brakes went out COMPLETELY a couple months back during a cold snap and a rear wheel cylinder was to blame. The fluid poured out as fast as I could put it in. Anyway, due to time and weather constraints, I decided …

The drums need to be removed and the brake work inspected. The shaking when the brakes were applied sounded like the shop failed to clean the cosmoline off the drums but you then you said there was no shaking when applying brakes going backwards and that reduces the likelihood of that being the cau…

sounds like whatever guy at the shop worked on the truck isn’t very good working on drum brakes

I have had the wheels off so the lug nuts are tight. I wonder if the shoes are reversed as mentioned. Would they go on backwards? I didn’t feel like messing with this so took it to a shop. Now I guess I will be messing with it some more. If I took the drums off and took pictures, could you tell…

Yes the shoe’s can be put on reversed I can’t remember of hand weather the short shoe goe’s on the front or rear bit it will make a difference.

It looks like the long shoe goes to the back. I will pull the drums and look. [image] Drum Brakes > Location of Larger Shoe Maintenance/Repairs Hmmm…I guess you want Mr. Bendix to show up and set your mind at ease…I’ve checked out dozens of web sites, but they may not sa…

I wondered about an out of round drum. These things are factory new and got replaced once as defects during this whole ordeal with the warranty. They came from OReilly if that matters. I figure they are all the same. The shoes look like they were mounted fine on the left side. The slightly long…

I just took apart the other side and it looked the same. The shoes were in the proper location and nothing seemed loose or out of place. There were no odd wear patterns on the drum. Considering all this and the fact the drums were both swapped under warranty when I told the store about the proble…

OK, I was about to change the front rotors when one of my buddies called. I had that side up on a stand and the wheel off. He had one more suggestion. Find an empty road (not hard to do these days) and use the parking brake to stop. This would isolate the rear brakes and if there was no shaking,…

Can you measure run-out on the front rotors? Do you have a dial indicator?

Truck shakes after brake repairs - brakes or suspension bushing?

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cwatkin March 29, 2020, 7:22pm 8

It looks like the long shoe goes to the back. I will pull the drums and look.

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Truck shakes after brake repairs - brakes or suspension bushing?

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