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Hi guys I had my rear drum brakes replaced about a month ago. All new hardware, shoes, drums.
Now my rear passenger ones are making a clicking noise at very low speeds.
Took the drum off to examine and noticed the front shoe had very minimal play at the tension spring (spring that holds the shoe against the backing plate)
The other shoe didn’t have this play at all. Now my question is, how tightly held in place to the backing plate should the shoes be? Does a little play matter or?
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Update: yup that solved it. Guess the longer pin wasn’t giving enough tension holding the pad to backing plate during braking.
Glad to hear you’ve fixed it.
The longer pin would certainly have decreased the spring pressure, allowing lateral movement of the shoe when there should be none.[quote=”Bonnieman” post=175941]Glad to hear you’ve fixed it.
The longer pin would certainly have decreased the spring pressure, allowing lateral movement of the shoe when there should be none.[/quote]Wish I had noticed it from the get go. Ah well.
I wonder why the retaining spring didn’t just make up for the slack of the longer pin
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