need help my brake locked up

danielc24 · Post by **danielc24** » Sun Apr 01, 2007 2:54 pm

i went to leave today and drove for about 50 feet and my right rear brake just locked up and when i reverse i hear a couple clicking noises so i had the car towed to my house. what could be the problem? i dont have the money right now to fix it so is there anything i can do to be able to move my car?

halford637 · Post by **halford637** » Sun Apr 01, 2007 6:52 pm

Dont know if you have rear drum brakes..but that happened to me and it turn out to be that the rear shoe had broken apart and got all jammed up in there.

danielc24 · Post by **danielc24** » Sun Apr 01, 2007 6:55 pm

i bet that's it

ewetho · Post by **ewetho** » Mon Apr 02, 2007 12:12 am

Sorry not safely if you lost a shoe or other part. You need to fix it.

bad04srt · Post by **bad04srt** » Mon Apr 02, 2007 12:22 am

happened to my friend on his corolla....pulled the ebrake to park and sometime between the time he parked and the time he was leaving his ebrake cable snapped so it locked his rear brakes. i've never heard of anything like it before but i saw it with my own eyes.....but i bet yours is a busted shoe like said above

danielc24 · Post by **danielc24** » Mon Apr 02, 2007 8:13 am

ok so if i remove whatever is keeping my wheel from moving will i be able to drive and stop safely for a short time until i get it fixed

OverDrive418 · Post by **OverDrive418** » Mon Apr 02, 2007 12:41 pm

I wouldn't. You'll probably end up doing more damage and paying a lot more to fix it. Brakes are one of those things you just don't slack on ya know? Shoes are cheap and easy to fix, save yourself some grief.

danielc24 · Post by **danielc24** » Mon Apr 02, 2007 12:46 pm

what size is the nut holding the drum on?

Post by **racer12306** » Mon Apr 02, 2007 12:48 pm

nut???

do you mean the thin little metal thingy. just break it off with pliars.

you will have to fight with the drum to get it off. sometime a light tap with a hammer around the entire drum helps.

OverDrive418 · Post by **OverDrive418** » Mon Apr 02, 2007 1:16 pm

Lug nut?! That's all that's holding mine on!

danielc24 · Post by **danielc24** » Mon Apr 02, 2007 3:26 pm

ok when i pulled that cap off all i seen was a big nut , so all i have to do knock the drum off?

Post by **racer12306** » Mon Apr 02, 2007 3:30 pm

yeah, no need to pull that nut off. dont know what size it is but i do know its a big sumbitch. but yeah, no need to worry about it.

danielc24 · Post by **danielc24** » Mon Apr 02, 2007 3:47 pm

how much am i going to spend replacing the rear brakes?

hansken_yo · Post by **hansken_yo** » Mon Apr 02, 2007 4:46 pm

Probably about 75-100 plus shipping from a wrecking yard (that would include the spindle I believe.)

ragek23 · Post by **ragek23** » Mon Apr 02, 2007 5:08 pm

get it fixed soon or now cuz having the rear brakes shot puts even more stress on the fronts. This happen to the other family neon and both front and rear brakes needed to be changed cuz of the broken rear shoe.

jmr · Post by **jmr** » Mon Apr 02, 2007 11:08 pm

The nut is 30mm and it's torque on at 160 ft. lbs.

BlackRoseRacing · Post by **BlackRoseRacing** » Tue Apr 03, 2007 5:58 am

you will have to fight with the drum to get it off. sometime a light tap with a hammer around the entire drum helps

^^^
Or leave the wheel on with 2 lugnuts and use the wheel as leverage to work the drum off.....

danielc24 · Post by **danielc24** » Tue Apr 03, 2007 8:39 am

what about putting the drum back on?

Post by **racer12306** » Tue Apr 03, 2007 9:13 am

line it up with the studs and give it a nice push and it should pop right on, unless your shoes are too far out.

yeah, driving around without back brakes sucks. takes a lot more effort to stop. i drove around in my monte without effective back brakes for a while because they didn't feel like working well after i went in there and put new axle gaskets in and my dad and i couldnt figure out why there were problems.

danielc24 · Post by **danielc24** » Tue Apr 03, 2007 9:19 am

i can't even get the drum off lol i've been pounding away at it

Post by **racer12306** » Tue Apr 03, 2007 9:20 am

if the shoe is stuck there it will be hard.

there should be a way to loosen the shoes from the back, it involves the star wheel, but im not completely sure without looking at it.

danielc24 · Post by **danielc24** » Tue Apr 03, 2007 9:54 am

all i seen on the back was two little bolts and a grease fitting maybe so i took the bolts out and tried again prying with a couple screwdrivers and it barely moves

Post by **racer12306** » Tue Apr 03, 2007 10:01 am

thats not a grease fitting, thats the brake bleeder.

danielc24 · Post by **danielc24** » Tue Apr 03, 2007 10:03 am

lol

i guess i'll keep trying

hansken_yo · Post by **hansken_yo** » Tue Apr 03, 2007 10:43 am

The star wheel that racer is talking about is just above the 2nd spring behind the drum plate... it is essentially the ebrake adjuster. the problem is that it is behind the drum plate.

I can't think of an effective method to help you get that plate off, cause everything to release it is behind it. Sorry dude... good luck

ragek23 · Post by **ragek23** » Tue Apr 03, 2007 10:46 am

there is a piece of rubber back there a rubber plug. Get that out and it exposes the shoe adjuster. Take a screw driver and spin the adjuster. This should losen the tension with the shoes on the drum. Then pull the drum off and you should see the guts of it all and the broken shoes.

good luck

danielc24 · Post by **danielc24** » Tue Apr 03, 2007 10:57 am

thanks , i wondered what that was

dblsg · Post by **dblsg** » Tue Apr 03, 2007 11:01 am

your having trouble taking it off because something is jammed in there, hence why its locked. you just gonna have to muscle up big time.

danielc24 · Post by **danielc24** » Tue Apr 03, 2007 11:29 am

finally got it now i need tires they were bad anyway but the one that dragged up into my driveway has wires sticking out about a half inch long

ragek23 · Post by **ragek23** » Tue Apr 03, 2007 11:53 am

from the tire tread itself?^

that doesn't sound too good. Grab some cheap falkens