Rear drum smoking (4 Viewers)

[phishtaco]

Swapped out my passenger rear wheel cylinders because they were leaking. The cylinders were new from Cruiser Outfitters. So bad adjustments on my part? Or sticking new wheel cylinder?

 

[charliemeyer007]

I have never had a wheel cylinder stuck on. Some times the rubber brake hose delaminates inside and acts like a check valve.

 

[MDH33]

Swapped out my passenger rear wheel cylinders because they were leaking. The cylinders were new from Cruiser Outfitters. So bad adjustments on my part? Or sticking new wheel cylinder?

Did you adjust them with it up on jackstands so you could rotate the wheel and test for drag?

 

[phishtaco]

Did you adjust them with it up on jackstands so you could rotate the wheel and test for drag?

Going to redo it again after work. I’m sure it was somethingI did wrong.

 

[pb4ugo]

Adjust with the wheel bolted on.

 

[centerlineseal]

You ain't the first one on here that succumbed to "operator error". Ask me how I know!

 

[numby]

Swapped out my passenger rear wheel cylinders because they were leaking. The cylinders were new from Cruiser Outfitters. So bad adjustments on my part? Or sticking new wheel cylinder?

Did you re-grease all the shoe contact points and the slot in the adjuster bolts that the shoes fit in to?

I don't know who makes the Cruiser Teq wheel cylinders but I've noticed most aftermarket suppliers have completely cheapened out on them. Shorter adjuster bolts, no slope to the slot in the bolts (deeper part toward the center), sloppy wide shoe slots on the non-adjusting end, and no interior spring centering plugs that were present in OEM cylinders in '72-80.

 

[phishtaco]

Did you re-grease all the shoe contact points and the slot in the adjuster bolts that the shoes fit in to?

I don't know who makes the Cruiser Teq wheel cylinders but I've noticed most aftermarket suppliers have completely cheapened out on them. Shorter adjuster bolts, no slope to the slot in the bolts (deeper part toward the center), sloppy wide shoe slots on the non-adjusting end, and no interior spring centering plugs that were present in OEM cylinders in '72-80.

I will double check that tonight also. I feel like that was the way I did it a month or so ago on the driver side but I don’t think I paid attention on the passenger side. Thanks for the reminder.

 

[numby]

I will double check that tonight also. I feel like that was the way I did it a month or so ago on the driver side but I don’t think I paid attention on the passenger side. Thanks for the reminder.

I know most people consider it a waste of time with how inexpensive new wheel cylinders are but, unless the brake system is funkruddy I try to rebuild them at least once before they get tossed. Rebuilding an hydraulic drum brake system from master cylinder back was one of the first skills I taught myself after I got the basics kind of figured out (oil/filter change, timing/plugs, valve adjustment, etc). I find it kind of relaxing because I don't have to be at the bench. Any shady spot around the yard will do.

Did these the other day. Passenger rears on my '78.

I'm mentioning this because it also tends to make me a little more focused rather than just slapping on a new part. Sometimes.