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

 

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.

 

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.

 

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.

 

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

 

You need to compress the cylinders. Brake install 101.

 

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

 

thanks for your patience

 

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.