can sum1 tell me how to take my drum brakes off a 90 civic 4dr??

 

What are you changing? Shoes? Drums them selves? Or the whole assembly to go to discs?

 

jus the drums...

 

undo the e-brake

 

i already undid the e brake

 

Smack it with a hammer... Don't hit the studs

If the drum is loose from the hub and it seems stuck you most likely have a ridge on the inside of the drum.

 

just play with it and ti should come loose

 

thats wat i thought...because my on my friends it just slid off...so why wont mine..

 

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i did hit it wit a hammer
maybe theres still something else i gotta unloose??

 

Usually there are two holes in the drum
that a small bolt (8mm X 1.25mm) can be threaded into
to act as a puller..

If the drums are badly grooved,You may have to back off the brake
adjuster by holding the adjuster catch plate up and looseing the adjuster.

 

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that a small bolt (8mm X 1.25mm) can be threaded into
to act as a puller..

If the drums are badly grooved,You may have to back off the brake
adjuster by holding the adjuster catch plate up and looseing the adjuster.</TD></TR></TABLE>

Phil knows his stuff!

 

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that a small bolt (8mm X 1.25mm) can be threaded into
to act as a puller..

If the drums are badly grooved,You may have to back off the brake
adjuster by holding the adjuster catch plate up and looseing the adjuster.</TD></TR></TABLE>

That usually works best. Just keep screwing both bolts in even and it will actually break the drum loose for you.

--Adam

 

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maybe theres still something else i gotta unloose??</TD></TR></TABLE>

your not doing it right then...

 

Just screw in the screws and periodically smack the hammer to break the years of rust and grim off. I recently did mine, pulled the pass. side of with ease. Driver took me a bit more of elbow grease.

 

if the drum is very old and worn, then there will be a lip at the edge of the drum which will completely prevent the drum from coming off because the shoes are below the line of the lip. there is an oval rubber plug in the back of the hub assembly that you can remove and gain access to the star adjuster. its a total pain, but you should be able to manually adjust the shoes tighter so the drum can then come off.

 

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You would have to loosen it to remove..Right?</TD></TR></TABLE>

i dont think you understand. the point is to bring the shoes in closer, so the overall diameter of the shoes is small enough to clear the lip of the drum.

to rephrase whats happened is that the ID of the drum has grown bigger due to wear. the OD of the shoes have grown bigger to match. however, the edge of the drum that does not touch the shoe surface has stayed the same. so now the shoes OD is bigger than the ORIGINAL ID of the drums. you need to back out the shoes so the OD of the shoes is smaller than the original ID of the drums, or close enough that the drum can be free.

 

Ok..I got ya,It was the way you worded it that threw me..

Anyone that has ever done this knows what a pain it
can be..

Hold a flashlight in your teeth,And use both hands with
a small pick and a small flat blade screwdriver or brake adjustment tool.
Use the pick to hold the self adjuster lever up and the flat blade
to spin the star adjuster in..
All this through a tiny slot you can hardly see through.

 

ok...
now i jus cant get the bottom end of the drum to come loose..

 

hmm my friends s10 had a drum issue too, where we beat the hell out of it with a hammer. then the teacher got the idea to torch the **** out of the middle of it (wheel cylinder or w/e its called) so the middle expands and it came right out after it was red hot.

 

my problem is the very bottom of the drum doesnt wanna come out..