9.9.1. Removal and installation of drums of brake mechanisms of back wheels

The brake drum is removed for its replacement at damage or wear of a working surface (the most admissible diameter of a drum of 201,0 mm), and also for control of a condition of brake mechanisms, by replacements of brake shoes and working cylinders.

Good advice Work carry out on the car with the hung-out back wheels (on the lift or the car established by means of a jack on support). The lever of the parking brake should be lowered against the stop down (the car is stirred up).

Prevention Brake drums replace with pairs (left and right at the same time).

You will need a screw-driver with a crosswise edge.

1. Remove the left wheel.

2. Turn out the screw of fastening of a brake drum.	3. Through a carving opening of a bolt of fastening of a wheel wring out an adjusting wedge (for descriptive reasons the brake drum is removed).

Note For a reversing of the screw of fastening of a brake drum it is also possible to use a power screw-driver.

4. Remove a brake drum.

Good advice If the brake drum is not possible to remove effort of hands, in easy blows of a hammer обстучите it on perimeter of a privalochny surface to a nave of a back wheel.

5. Measure by a calliper diameter of a working surface. If diameter exceeds the most admissible, the drum is subject to replacement.

6. Establish details as it should be, the return to removal.

Good advice At installation of a former drum remove a file a fillet on a working surface of the drum, formed as a result of wear.

7. Similarly remove, check and if necessary replace the right brake drum.