Hey guys and gals been a while since i have posted. Beside getting ready to Move busy and guilty of buying a moped to save gas ( Round trip to town =$1.00, Dakota = $6.29 ).

Now to the point Total rebuild of rear brakes. Ordered brake kit drums wheel cylinders etc. Tore it down started rebuild, found the following: wheel cylinders bleeder tap metric, Rebuild kit is now two kits one for the emergency brake one and self adjuster, one for springs. Phone ordered extra parts last night, going to town, naturally on Moped because Dak is on Jackstands. Brake drums are about 5/8 of an inch shorter than the factory, no cooling fins look like junk from china. Im wire brushing the old drums and re using them, cant see using no cooling drums with the weight I carry and trailering household items out of mountains. ( another thread )

 

A Moped! What are you thinking? JK Save TONS on gas!

I hate doing the rear brakes, its not hard but compared to the front they suck!
It sounds like they got you the wrong ones. As long as your old ones are smooth they should be good. If needed get them machined down.

I just had rebuild my rear brakes too. One spring on the driver side broke and killed the drum and other parts. The last few days before I parked it for the swap I was hearing bad nosies from the rear and front also. Front needed pads bad, but all that got riped out. But the new front axle brakes got a rebuild also.

 

Checked drums at advanced also, both places selling china parts now. Both places sellong brakes and emergency brake connectors seperate. Also both places wheel cylinders bleeders are metric. LOL not a problem I have a metric box to work on chinamoped rofl.

 

Crazy LOL tons on gas leme tell ya from the gas station to home & back Dak uses just under 2 gallons from the hills. Moped round trip 1/4 gallom, lets see 7 bucls against 1 buck. OMG your right Im saving on gas rofl!!

 

so your the one i "accidentally" steered my car towards...lol jk

 

I always get new springs etc when doing rears. My good jack died so Im using a new junk jack so it is a real pain in the ****, makes an easy job suck. I should do the fronts and check the lower ball joints also. One thing at a time. Need to do Mrs Newbies also.

 

Oh it was you, oh well you owe me a fee for replacing those fake bullett holes in the tailgate with real ones, Durn 32 shells are hard to come by!

 

Ok. Folks further on story the nuts are trashed the left rear wheel will work with new nuts but they are going to be aftermarket, the Dakota ones online are 28 bucks each!

 

O.k. Found the problem that caused the damage to the new rear brakes, Devised a way to make it all correct and ordered part needed today. I won't bore you all with what was wrong, I won't make a seperate post to explain the factory defect I have not seen mentioned, or how to get around it. When someone here eats up a new set of brakes in 80 miles remember I could have helped. In short I am extremely insulted, and think its time to fade into the sunset.

 

If your referring to me, post what ever you want. Its your thread. The forum is to help people, not confuse as per the other posts.