Drum Brakes, Self Adjuster Screw Bent "Normal"?

YoshiMoshi3
Sat, 26 Jul 2025 04:23:38 +0000
Maintenance/Repairs

2005 Camry, drum brakes.

Is the threaded portion supposed to be bent like this? This is part of the drum brakes. It’s a pretty thick screw, so I find it hard to believe somehow this got bent. But when disassembling it “wobbled”. I unscrewed it completely and noticed that it was bent. So this thing.

Can anyone confirm this is normal? Find it hard to believe it being bent is normal, but also find it hard to believe something happened to cause it to bend so badly as it’s pretty thick.

Also, just to confirm the technical term is “self adjuster” for the part that got bent?

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