Posted by rrlund on October 04, 2013 at 12:34:58 from (207.241.137.116):
Since I was having so much trouble with those trailer brakes I thought I'd better see what I could do with the truck brakes. They've been kind of sketchy. The right rear tightened right up OK with the adjuster,but I haven't been able to do anything with the left one since I let a kid use it for a brake project at the Career Center about a dozen years ago. I've tried for all those years to get that thing adjusted up right. Today I couldn't even budge the adjuster.
It took some heat,PB Blaster,the air chisel and a BIG hammer to get the drum off. I got to looking at it and the darned adjuster was in backwards so I'd been loosening it all these years. Joe stopped in right after I got it turned around. He looked in the drum and said "those shoes have never touched that drum!". There wasn't a mark in that thing. Looked like it had just been turned. I got it adjusted and those brakes work now,let me tell you!
Now if I could get the trailer to stop like that. I'll feel better pulling silage wagons with it next week anyway.
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