I can't find my Hanes book and I know nothing about drum brakes. I broke both my bleeder valves on the drum mechanisms and simply decided to pick up new rear wheel cylinders. How do I install them? 1- remove rear wheels, hehe 2- remove drums (how? are they held on by anything ither than the wheel?)
Then what? I'm assuming that i will remove the brake line as if i were changing a caliper. I know this sounds idiotic, but I've never done this before and I need to be able to properly bleed my brakes beofre the next track event. Thanks.

Vince

 

I do not mean to be rude, but if you don't know how to get the drums off, chances are you won't be able to replace the wheel cylinders. To get the wheels cylinders off, you will need to remove the rear brake shoes. This is a task, that sometimes even an experienced mechanic(myself) has some trouble with. Its not a hard task, but having and extra hand attached to your body would make it a little easier. If you do decide to tackle the job yourself, there are a few things you need to keep in mind. Only do one side at a time, its kinda hard to remember where all those springs go, so if you only have one side apart, you can use the other side for reference. If your gonna replace the wheel cylinders, go ahead and replace the brake shoes too, they're too cheap not to. you shouldn't need to have the drums resurfaced unless they are grooved, or have excessive radial runout. Drum brakes are much more forgiving with resufacing than disk brakes are. Disks tend to make noise and stop shitty if you choose not to resurface the rotors, but i've done plenty of drum setups without resurfacing the drums and they were fine. it might not be a bad idea to hit up the surface of the drum with some sand paper to give a good mating surface for the new shoes. and to answer your question, after you pull the wheel off, the drum will just slide off with some effort, or it should anyway. Sometimes they get rusted on and require a little tapping with a hammer to break em loose. My suggestion is if you've never done drum brakes before, either have it done, or at least have someone near by that has done them before to assist you. After you take it apart, the car is pretty much immobile, so its not like you can give up and drive it to a shop to have it done. Find your hanes manual and read up before you decide to tackle the job, and if you have any other questions, we'll be here to help you out.

hope this helps
Chris

 

Try this
http://www.carenthusiast.com/crxuk/