redpeppers

there is a noise from the rear drums when i hit the brakes and the ebrake when i am rolling. I thought it was the shoes but i changed those and it is still there. I also had the drums turned and the noise is still there. Anyone had this problem? I have a 97 civic cx... 1.6 non vtec.

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kkim

take the drum back off and look for any worn spots. If it's making grinding noises it will sure leave some kind of bare metal showing to give you a clue as to whats scraping. sounds like you assembled something wrong when you changed the shoes.

in any event, check it soon as whatever is making noise might just work itself loose and lock up your brakes.... not good.

redpeppers

i know the shoes r not on wrong because it was making the same noise before i changed the shoes. it is also doing it when i hot the ebrake.

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EK45VTi

Take the drums of and sand them and then clean the hell out of them

Had the same problem, took the drum off, sanded it and cleaned it dry cloth and never had a problem again...

Stingray96

Clean the break dust out

redpeppers

r u talking about the inside of the drum or the outside? Because i had the drums turned and the brake shoes have a good clean surface. ThaNKS for the help.

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EK45VTi

Inside of the drum...

redpeppers

u think if the adjuster is not set properly it would be making a rubing noise

EK45VTi

Maybe the first 100-200 miles but then it would stop cos the shoes would wear out...

Just clean the inner surface of the drum and that's it...

NineTwoSi

I posted in your other post about the adjuster.... Just out of curiosity what did you end up doing to get the drum back on? Also now that they are back on what kind of shoe did you get? I put semi-metallic on a civic I used to have and they sounded like they were grinding and then I found out the rear pads are supposed to be organic and that's why I was getting so much noise.

redpeppers

i had the drums resurfaced and they went on after that no problem.....i had to push on the ebrake lever a little too, but mostly when i resurfaced them it fixed the problem. I used some cheap refurb. brake shoes. I am not sure what type of material they were made from.

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