Removing and Replacing rear brake drums on 1972 K-20 Chevy Pickup part 3 (Removing the Shoes)

Removing and Replacing rear brake drums on 1972 K-20 Chevy Pickup part 3

In this video we take apart the shoes and remove all the spring. Right when the video ended was the last piece removed from the drum so nothing missed.

I was wrong about the spanner nut, the spider gasket is NOT the spanner nut, the piece that it wraps around is, as I said in my earlier videos.

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Autos & Vehicles

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• 1972
• K-20
• C-10
• C-20
• Rear
• Brake
• Drum
• Replacement
• Removal
• Repiar
• Chevy
• Chevrolet
• Shoe
• Spanner
• Nut
• Auto
• Truck
• 5.7L
• bbl
• 350
• Carb
• Part

[n6ugy]

OK, thanks... I was afraid of that. I wonder why they didn't give us outside adjustment access on these. Dennis

[JetForceF22]

Yeah its a pain. My shoes are 13 inches which is massive, the drums themselves weighed upwards of 90lbs or more lol. My whole rear axle is huge now that I mention it, I have a 14 bolt lol. Surprisingly enough I don't have posi traction

[n6ugy]

Yeah there heavy, I hate pullin the drums. Maybe the backing up trip will work :>)

[JetForceF22]

It worked for me, I did it about 20 times or so. Also I had to take the axle shaft out to get my drums off.

[n6ugy]

Oh yeah, but pullin the axel is easy, I hate removing the drum and bearings.

[JetForceF22]

The drum slid off like hot knife on butter after i got the stupid spanner nut and bearings out lol

[n6ugy]

Im wondering if my star wheels and/or self adjust levers are wore out. The brakes should have stayed in adjustment, if all that was working.

[JetForceF22]

All the adjustments have to be made with the drums off. The only other setting to adjust is backing up the truck and slamming on the breaks to increase the brake shoe pressure against the drums, when you go backwards and do that it clicks the notch forward one spacing the breaks towards the drum.

[n6ugy]

Im curious, Does that 72 have slots in the backing plates to adjust the shoes thru ?

Or slots in the drums ? Or is it strictly self adjusting ? Dennis

[JetForceF22]

Gotta do what you gotta do lol