Drum brakes replaced

[barkingspider]

2006 Toyota matrix 191k miles, unknown miles on rear shoes, it was a little noisy so decided to go ahead and replace them to include the rusty drums, the old shoes did not look too worn, replaced w Bosch, manually adjusted them, hit the brakes in reverse a couple of times, took for a test drive and all good and quiet now

Old drum

Old shoes

New shoes

New drum

 

[Oillover]

Looks factory fresh!

 

[himemsys]

Those springs are always so fun to put back on. Did my drums and shoes about a year and a half ago I probably still have remnants of knuckle gashes.

 

[slacktide_bitog]

Looks good

Too bad they don't make pre-assembled shoes for your Matrix. Coated drums are awesome

 

[LouC]

I have a bunch of drum brake tools that make the job much easier. All 3 of our Jeeps have rear disc brakes with the parking brake in the drum part of the disc rotor.
On my boat trailer I have zinc coated drums, that coating really helps. This one goes into salt water 2-4 times a year. My old axle had zinc coated drums that looked pretty good when I took it off to replace with a heavier duty axle last year after 17 years of use.
Old 3500 lb axle and 10" drums:

New 6000 lb axle and 12" drums

12"vs 10" drum brake clusters:

 

[The Critic]

I hope the drums are round. That has been an issue with aftermarket, IME.

 

[97prizm]

Looks like my neons drums. My issue was that both rear drums wheel cylinder? leaked after three months so I had to replace both sides and new shoes as brake fluid leaked on them. My complaint is that by 2000 disk brakes were understood technology. No vehicle should have had drum brakes installed.

 

[eljefino]

Weird that your entire outer surface looks machined. Never seen that before.

Revisit those brakes after a week and adjust them again through the hole in the backing plate. They seat fairly quickly and will take more clicks.