Broken parking brake drum... Son of a......... ;)

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jackbrad

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I am putting my t-case together and noticed a funny collar like piece on the rear output shaft. The thing was it had a funny jagged edge. It turned out to be a part of the brake drum....Basically, the female piece on the drum broke off and stayed one the rear shaft.

Anybody ever had this type of thing happen?
Wonder where I can get one.

I have pics but, can post them from my phone.
Maybe I can post them later.
 
I've seen two that have cut almost all the way thru, but not one that's gone ALL THE WAY! That's a trophy piece fo sho.

Only one thing that will cause it..........every time. The arm on the parking brake actuator comes in closer to the center of the hub as the shoes are expanded out onto the shell of the drum. Sooooooooo, the parking brake was set............FOR A LONG TIME!:eek:

I've had a post up in the WANTED section for a few weeks now for that particular vintage drum with little success. :frown: GL

Mark A.
 
I noticed this big assed groove in mine last week also.
wasn't all the way though.

Put the artec welding rod to it and filled the groove up.

My guess is the pads on mine were toast and the fact that I drive around with the e-brake sawed it up.

I am going to dump this system as soon as I can get the front discs and then it will be 4 discs with no mre flintstone e-brake
 
hammered said:
I noticed this big assed groove in mine last week also.
wasn't all the way though.

Put the artec welding rod to it and filled the groove up.

My guess is the pads on mine were toast and the fact that I drive around with the e-brake sawed it up.

I am going to dump this system as soon as I can get the front discs and then it will be 4 discs with no mre flintstone e-brake
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Welding, hmmm. Not necessarily a bad way to go, though I would be curious. The ones I've seen like yours would take a good bit of metal to fill, and I'd wonder if the drum would end up distorting on the end of the hub.

Did the drum still slide smoothly onto the output shaft of the transfer case?
 
hammered said:
I am going to dump this system as soon as I can get the front discs and then it will be 4 discs with no mre flintstone e-brake
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just cause you go to disc all the way around is no reason to get rid of your ebrake. what do you do if your master fails (sorry, that dual circuit stuff doesn't mean you have good braking power...ebrake is really handy then), or if you're on a hill and need to get out with the rig running ?
 
re. the welding.

I did 2 passes.
one hot root and capped it with the 2nd
as for it distorting.
In the root I staggered the welds.
left, right, top, and bottom to keep it from shrinking or hooking.
I got one grape inside it were I burnd through and had to file it out but it went on good.
Note: don't got to hot on the root as the grape took and hour+ to file out.
Little tighter than before but did the trick.
I am sure if I took the time to clean it all out really good it would have been as good as before for fit.
My guess in a week or to it will seat itself again back to norm with reg. driving etc...

As for the other thing about keeping the fred flinstone hand brake.
To hell with that!
I have had a numourous times where I have been laying under the rig trying to adjust or fix this hand brake.
Not worth the extra e-brake.
The rear discs I have in the shop have a cable e-brake and this should be fine.
Just have to find a hilux here before it gets rapped for brake parts. I will have the front and rear disc package.
 
Pics

brokebrake.jpg


brokebrake2.jpg
 
No fixing that one!
I got mine before it sawed in half.
Hopefully someone has an extra kicking around they can part with.


that lever on the must be some really hard steal to cut like that.
I noticed the arm on mine barely had wear from all the sawing.
 
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