is there a way to get the rear hub off on a 93 chev blazer to replace the brake shoes
2006-07-21 04:28:41 · 7 answers · asked by coltjason1957 1 in Cars & Transportation ➔ Maintenance & Repairs
If the brake shoes have been on for a long time and are metal to metal they will cut a groove in the wheel hub. Then as they self adjust out farther and farther and cut the grove deeper and deeper you can't pull the brake hub off because the shoes are inside the grove and the lip of the grove hits against the brakes. What you have to do is loosen the brakes with the self adjusting nut. On the backside of the wheel you will find a small rubber stopper that plugs a hole in the wheel. This is about an inch long and 1/4 to 3/8" wide. Remove the rubber. Now you need a brake adjustment tool or a small screwdriver might also work to stick inside of the hole. There is a wheel inside of that hole. The wheel is only about 1/16" thick and it has slots cut into it. You need to turn this wheel to loosen the brake adjustment up enough that the brake hub will slide over the brake shoes. If memory servers me correct you need to turn the wheel from the top and rotate it to the bottom. You'll only be able to turn it a little bit at a time and you need to make several complete rotations. This will take a bit of time but that's how you get the hub off.
2006-07-21 04:37:53 · answer #1 · answered by Ben S 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There may still be tinnermans holding the drum onto the lug studs. At the factory, they put these little metal clips on 1 or 2 of the lugs studs after they install the drum to keep the drum stationary before the wheel ase installed. Look to see if there are any of these little round spring steel clips holding the drum on. If there are, cut them off with some wire cutters and throw them away.
If you've waited too long to replace your shoes, the metal that the brake material used to be attached to has cut grooves into your drum. You'll need to back off the adjuster so the shoes will retract from the drum enough to let you pull the drum off.
At the top or bottom of the backing plate should be an oval slot about 3/8" tall by 3/4" wide. It may still have the rubber plug in it. If so, remove the plug by prying it out with a screwdriver. The use a brake spoon to ratchet the adjuster in order to adjust it to a lower length. This will allow the shoes to retract back into a smaller diameter than the drum, enabling you to tap on the drum with a hammer and pull it off.
2006-07-21 04:40:41 · answer #2 · answered by jogimo2 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Can I make a little correction to hard time answer. Sound like he never been work on the car. We talking about 1993 car (13 years old) also how many time you take the brake drum out. If not lately, the drum might be rusted and freeze to he axial hub. He is right to said that take the wheel out, that just the beginning, next you have to release the emergency brake, loose the brake shoes by loosen the start wheels that adjust the brake clearance, sometime the drum worn out so bad that you can not even loose the brake shoe far enough to take the drum out plus the rusted that I mention before. Then the fun begin, you may have to pound it out with heavy hammer, knock on the drum one side at a time while pulling on the opposite side. Eventually it will come out, but it not that easy. Good luck
2006-07-21 04:42:08 · answer #3 · answered by Eddy 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, it should probably just come right off. Is it a drum assy? I'm presuming so. If it's disc with a drum e-brake, it may have a caliper lock on it that takes a special tool. If it's a full drum setup, just keep whacking at it and working with it and the drum will come off. Use a heel bar or big screwdriver to pry it off. If it's really tight, you can adjust your ebrake cable or access the adjuster from behind the drum assy through that oval shaped hole to loosen the adjuster (tough to do) You may have a sticky e-brake cable which may take some whackig on the back side of the drum assy. Good luck.
2006-07-21 04:34:58 · answer #4 · answered by jeff s 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Use a brake ajusting tool and back off the brake shoes. You may have a ridge on the drum that the shoes are hitting!
2006-07-21 06:22:42 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
i have had to heat up the hub the hit the drum with a 3 pound hammer
2006-07-21 04:33:45 · answer #6 · answered by deerhunter14775 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Unbolt the wheel after you jack it up take the wheel off , remove the brake drum and there you have the brakes.
Now was that too hard.
2006-07-21 04:32:01 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋