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My 1996 Honda Accord LX has a soft brake pedal that needs pushed very far to stop the car. I thought the problem was the master cylinder, which I changed, however pedal feel only improved slightly. I had purchased new drums and shoes a few years ago that I never put on the car, so I put them on. Before the installation, when I turned the drum, it would spin freely with no drag, except at certain points it would catch and I would need to turn drum firmly to get it past the point. I thought that the drums or shoes were out of balance and that the new hardware would fix the problem. After installation of the new drums and shoes however, the drum still catches at certain points while spinning freely with no drag everywhere else.
The old shoes, both of which are the same size, are worn unevenly. On the left shoe, the top is worn down about halfway, and the bottom isn’t hardly worn at all. The right shoe is the opposite, the top is hardly worn at all, and the left is worn about halfway down. The right shoe is generally more worn on the left. The left brakes have the same wear pattern with the right and left shoes reversed. I have attached images of the right and left brake shoes.
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i would make sure the mating surface for your drum on your hub surface is clean and make sure the hub is not spinning out of round or bent, make sure the drum isn’t wobbling as it spins… make sure the drum is firmly seated agents the hub, also try taking a couple of lugnuts and tighten them by hand so the drum is centered on the hub as possible.
Tightening the lug nuts up against the drum solved the problem. I was able to get a good adjustment on the brakes once I put both drums on at the same time and pumped the break pedal. When I tried adjusting the brakes with only one drum on I was having a harder time get a good adjustment.
Whenever I spin the drum with a reasonable amount of force I get about one full revolution of the drum before it stops. Does this seem about right. Thanks for the help.
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