Mopar Drum Brake Wheel Cylinder Rebuild. They're Easy To Rebuild! HOT ROD Staff Writer May 12, 2010. See All 7 Photos.

Here’s How To Change Drum Brake Shoes, Springs, and Wheel Cylinder To repeat, this is how the job is done on a 2006 front-drive Saturn Vue without ABS, which means it’s a leading/trailing shoe ...

By removing the brake drums, problems such as worn shoes, leaking wheel cylinders, or scored drums are easy to spot. If the drum's diameter is in question, many auto-parts stores can measure them.

You’ll be dealing with a brake drum, brake shoes, wheel cylinders, and brake hardware. Unlike disc brakes, drum brake hardware generally comprises a collection of springs and spring retainers.

Depending on your vehicle, those brake mechanisms are composed of either rotors, calipers, and brake pads; drums, wheel cylinders, and brake shoes; or a combination of the two systems.

Major ComponentsThe drum brake system features a master cylinder, wheel cylinders, lined shoes, and brake drums.Master cylinders mount below the floorboard on GM trucks built to 1959 and Ford ...

The brake drum mounts to the wheel hub and encloses two brake shoes, a wheel cylinder, a series of springs, and other small parts. Like disc brakes, drum brakes rely on hydraulic fluid and friction.

Peel back the sealing boot at both wheel cylinders and check for wetness. ... Brake drums are marked with their maximum allowable inside diameter and should never be machined beyond the limit.

We update the brakes on a '93 Cadillac Coupe De Ville by swapping out the old drum brakes for a disc brake conversion from a '96 SS ... and wheel cylinder system so that we could get to the axle ...

Q Can you discuss the pros and cons of drum brakes vs. disc brakes, in terms of functionality and cost? It seems to me that with current manufacturing technology, disc brakes would be standard. I ...

Rear drum brakes can cause a low pedal, too. Seized star-wheel screws and otherwise inoperative self-adjusters are practically an epidemic, and you're risking trouble if you don't replace the ...