Parking brake shoe replacement

[skeddy]

Alright guys,

I just received my new shoes from Dan and I'm looking for a little help. First, does anyone care to post the pages from the FSM on how to change these out. That is the only book I don't have from the 100 series FSM set. Also, I would be glad to hear any suggestions or lessons learned from some of you that have replaced your parking brake shoes before. Mine are squeeling and down to the mininums.

I appreciate the help..

victor

 

[Trunk Monkey]

The parking brake shoes don't have squeal warning things, are you sure you're replacing the correct thing? It's pretty rare for the pb shoes to wear out, usually that only happens if they get stuck on and drag. That and they don't have much material to begin with. The bell cranks on my 80 were frozen for awhile and I thought for sure the shoes would be gone, but they were fine.

 

[skeddy]

Ya it seems I must have locked one up. The side right to be specific and now its down to bare bones and rubs.

 

[Trunk Monkey]

Rather than replacing the shoes I'd replace the bell cranks first (if that's the reason it's dragging). Again, mine were fine after rubbing through a winter.

 

[Skidoo]

Changed my shoes, the shoe material was disintegrating on mine. PO must have left them on and launched a boat or drove into a deep puddle. Lots of material, but chunks would fall off if you scraped them with a screwdriver.

 

[Skidoo]

Do you need to turn the drums. Has shoe metal contacted drum? If drum is not too worn need to sand inside drum rim (it will stick up from not getting worn) so it will so new shoes will fit. Also need to rough up all of drum surface to get rid of old brake shoe glaze.

 

[skeddy]

HMMMMM

Thanks all for the input. Mechanic had told me that my shoes were near minimum and that they should be changed. When I got in there, the shoes on both sides were 2.9 mm . This is well within the factory specs of 1mm minimum to 3.8mm max. So, after being a little ticked off! I lubed as suggested and will now wait for the 5 feet of fresh snow here in flagstaff to pass before I can check for more squeeling..