spens 91 Ef

im trying to replace my rear brake shoes, i got 1 of them back togethor or think i do but i cannot get the hub to go on. wrong brake shoe size? the shoes look to be almost 1/8-1/4 inch to big the adjuster is almost all the way adjusted in. i thought i bought the smallest shoe size, cars a 92 civic 4 door

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How are we going to know if they're the wrong size, if you never gave us the part number, or told us what or from where you ordered? You also might have them installed incorrectly.

spens 91 Ef

i was looking for some 1 to talk from experience seeing how there seems to be only 3 different shoe sizes, and like stated above i bought the smallest 1 for a 92 civic part number 546 from o'reillys 70.9x1.18 . thats a possibilty i could have installed them incorrectly.

NotARaCist

iTrader: (1)

And do you have a CX, DX, EX? Post a pic of them installed. Do you still have the old shoes? Compare the new to the old. Did you compress the brake cylinders when replacing the shoes?

There's no reason they shouldn't fit.

spens 91 Ef

its a lx, the hub says 181mm. i got all three springs in place, i left 1 side how it was to go off of. i didnt compress the cylinders

NotARaCist

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You need to compress the cylinders. Brake install 101.

spens 91 Ef

is there a way to do it with the shoe assembly on?

spens 91 Ef

thanks for your patience

NotARaCist

iTrader: (1)

Sure there is. Just remove the brake fluid reservoir cap, then squeeze the slave piston together. If you have a hard time doing it that way, you can also open the bleeder screw, but if you do that, you absolutely must completely and totally bleed the system afterwards.