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My Chevy trucks had them and they accumulated a lot of shards from the steel chain. Changing transfer case oil every two years at about 10,000 miles per year and using the transfer case almost every day in the winter, would give me a fair amount of metal. I think this might be a Chevy thing...

I’d be OK if I had access to a lathe, but I don’t think I’d have the patience to grind it by hand. That said, changing out the perfectly good shoes to match the curvature of new drums is a PITA. The other issue was that the drums were shedding a lot of rust and looked bad through the spokes of...

I used this design I first saw in the Ford Taurus forum. It has a bend at the end of a piece of coat hanger. You run it through the hole of the back plate with the end pointed to the front of the vehicle. When it enters the hole by 1-7/8 inch you turn it to the downward position and now you can...

The end of the story is that I used a BFH like the one in the video to remove the drums. I would hit the back of the drums until they jammed, then hit them on the front face until the drum went back to the rotatable position where it would turn, then rotated the drum 180 degrees and repeated...

One item to note about the video is that he does not show taking off the parking brake cable nor does he show putting it on the new shoe. These two items were the worst PITA of the whole job.

Maybe we can use the Mason Dixon Line. :unsure:

One thing that gets forgotten in the number of miles is the average rpm they were subjected to. My 6.0 in my 3/4 ton cruises long at 1800 rpm and accelerating to pass is over at 4500 rpm. The change interval is 100,000 miles. Higher revs and the cylinder pressure of a turbo causes more wear.

I couldn’t get the coated drums as the delivery was too long. Lordco up here had them. Too bad about the pre assembled shoes with the parking break arm. It’s a significant amount of work to transfer the arm to the new shoe. The shoes I got were Raybestos Element 3. The absolute worst part of...

Here is some of the fun I wanted to share doing the rear brakes on a 2005 Ford Taurus. I wanted to check the 8 year old rear brakes but could not get the brake drums removed. I live in the Rocky Mountain trench north of Idaho, in Eastern British Columbia. Lots of salt on the road. As many You...

It’s simple. The grandparents live at home in China, not shuffled off to an old folks home like in the USA. So you have mom and dad, one or two children and one set of grandparents. The other set of grandparents are at one of the siblings’ home. Home is usually a small apartment, but they all...

The smallest one I has was a 1974 B210 with the A13 4 cylinder 1288 cc engine that made 75 SAE net HP. That kind of power was less than the 3 cylinder turbos available now so I got to experience the attributes of a small power output. 0 to 60 in about 17 seconds. Good thing there weren't too...

Yup. To get the gas mileage you have to reserve the turbo for on-ramps only, and don’t attempt passing.

The AC in my 2005 Ford Taurus has been excellent and has never been touched.

It’s still a cat’s breakfast. We may get some clarification on August 1 but it looks like you may have slinked under the line. :D

What good is a new Corvette if you can’t remember where you parked it?

That’s all fair enough. The Gold line replaced the Professional line, and this was done less than 10 years ago so even they are better than the old AC Delcos prior to 2015. My Professional line AC Delco water pump has 50,000 miles on it. Like you said, I’ll bet the Delco OE is even better, but...

Nope. Not at all. I said there is an improvement in the AC Delco water pumps made in in China in the last ten years. I keep hearing complaints that are based on Chinese made parts made over 10 years ago. Many mechanics say “ I’ll never use that Chinese crap again.” That’s based on parts made...

In 2010 China caught up to the USA in the number of vehicles manufactured. In 2024, China manufactured 3 times the number of vehicles that the USA did. They’re probably learning a thing or two on auto manufacturing. :unsure:

Yes, and it’s probably what was causing the noise.