I can't figure out why the passenger side rear brake drags so bad, bout to smash the whole damn thing with a sledge. Just swapped in my rebuilt 14SF, all new NAPA brake components. Driver side drum is ambient temp after driving, gets to maybe 125 after some brake applications. Passenger side is 300 degrees after cruising. Drum is full of dust. I didn't have this problem with the old 10 bolt brakes.
I've manually adjusted the shoes, the brakes seem to bleed OK, fluid drips out when I back off the bleeder, I ground down the little pads that the shoes ride on, still a slight groove in those though. I put brake grease on all the contact points. The parking brake cables are new, and the lever is retracted all the way.
I just don't get it. Try grinding the pads on the backing plate to a mirror surface? Maybe the brake line is clogged and acts as a check valve? (that doesn't make sense since fluid drips out of the bleeder) Bad wheel cylinder? I thought maybe the drum was grinding on the backing plate somewhere, but there's no polished off spots or hot spots in the backing plate when I shoot it with the temp gun.
I've manually adjusted the shoes, the brakes seem to bleed OK, fluid drips out when I back off the bleeder, I ground down the little pads that the shoes ride on, still a slight groove in those though. I put brake grease on all the contact points. The parking brake cables are new, and the lever is retracted all the way.
I just don't get it. Try grinding the pads on the backing plate to a mirror surface? Maybe the brake line is clogged and acts as a check valve? (that doesn't make sense since fluid drips out of the bleeder) Bad wheel cylinder? I thought maybe the drum was grinding on the backing plate somewhere, but there's no polished off spots or hot spots in the backing plate when I shoot it with the temp gun.