I remember I couldn't get the drums off for the life of me. After a half hour of swearing I realized I had the park brake on 😂

As someone who’s watched hundreds of how-to videos in the YT universe, and as a career auto worker, I can tell you this man’s content is on point, start to finish. 👌 I still remember 10+ years ago when I was intimidated by drum brakes because I had only ever worked with discs and calipers. A lot of what I had to teach myself the first year is covered in this simple video. 🍻 👏 Thanks for putting this together! ✌️

So far I’ve done my trans fluid flush, coolant fluid, and now I’ll be doing my rear brakes. All turned great so far because of your awesome videos. I feel I should be paying you! Thank you so much for your time. 🤙🏽✌🏽👍🏽

Thank you for you handy tips and very thorough explanation !

Very informative. Videos have how to change and somewhat clean but this is the clean and adjust I was looking for. Well done. 👍

This kind of videos are priceless!! Thank you

Great video! Super informative and helpful! Thank you

I screwed up a lug nut stud during a routing tire rotation. This video was extremely helpful with its detail on how to remove the drum. Once I removed the drum, I noticed that it needed a good cleaning and again used the tips from this video. Thanks so much! and I'm happy to be a sub on this channel.

You’re a excellent profesor !!! Thanks

Just used the bolt method on my Tacoma. The drums came off with ease. Thanks for the tip.

Awesome video. Thank you

Epic video. Vary helpful.

Excellent Video. A+

Very good video !

Great video!

Good quality video thanks

great vid....subscribed!

Thanks for this EpicAF video bro! Your expertise and willingness to help a MF in need of saving his shoes and mind with your perfectly taught w attention to detail is Much APPRECIATED! 🙏🏻✌🏼❤️ I owe ya one son!🍻

This is like the electrical company telling you to use less electricity..... I'm glad i'm lazy and would take it to you to do because this video tells me you know what your doing !!!!

i have done my rear brakes many times, this is a spot on video, the only thing i believe is good to do is pull the brake shoes out a little and put a thin layer of brake caliper grease on the backing plate, you must be careful not to get it on the shoes, i wish you had a video on how to gravity brake fluid flush the lines, if you do can you send me the link, other videos are not what i like,

i of course know how to take off the drum and adjust everything but i gave a like because i never thought about flipping the drum over and putting it back on the studs to make it easy to service the drum...hhhh...learn something new all the time

I just put shoes on my Tacoma 2002 and read in my book on how to adjust them is to pull the parking brake lever. Well I was under it greasing the drive line and looking at everything and found the cable for the parking brake and started pulling it back and forth and I could hear the star wheel clicking and realized it was finishing the adjustment on the shoes. The are great now it stops on a dime.

New subscribers here!! Love your channel… please make a video (a slow video for slow learners 🤣🤙) on how to replace the rear shoes on a 2011 Tacoma v6 4x4 TRD sport. Thx again!! 🤣👍

Good advice at 10:45 - 11:20. I'm having trouble with my Hyundai 2019 Elantra SE rear drums. I put new shoes on the driver side and reassembled the springs, etc. I put the drum back on relatively easy and the drum will turn with slight drag, Perfect, right? But when I screw in the two flathead drum bolts that hold the drum on, the drum will not turn at all. Do I need to tighten the star wheel adjuster in all the way? Or do I need to compress the two cylinder rams?

That spray bottle is the boss !!!.. great idea! so there are no lubrication points in the drum assembly ?

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Thanks for all the Tacoma videos. How often do have to de-burr the edge on the drum? I’ve got a 2020 and at about 35km now. Wondering if I should pull the drum and take a look.

Map gas works good while you beat it

I just did drums and Wheel cylinders today. Also replaced the front right caliper and now my pedal goes almost to the floor. I have bled all four corners 2 times and it did not seem to fix the issue. I did adjust the drums, which helped a bit. The parking brake is nice and tight but the brake pedal still feels pretty spongey. Any idea on what this could be? The new cylinders are definitely working as I had my wife hit the brakes with the drum off. Spent about 10 hours today chasing this down. Help would be greatly appreciated, next stop is the dealer.

Is it ok to get breakclean on the rubber parts of the cylinder?

Really handy video describing how to care for drum brakes. Question, my Tacoma the rear drum brakes typically squeal when I am reversing, what is the cause of this and will and adjustment help with this problem?

Just picked up an 06 Tacoma, so drum brakes are new to me. Thanks for the intro into servicing these dinosaurs. Any special tools you recommend for this kind of work or just general maintenance of a Taco?

I watched a few other videos and they were spinning the drum with the tire on They said you should get 1 to 1 1/2 turns. The tire seems to spin more freely. Aren't you spinning the other wheel in the opposite direction?

Hi , thanks again for your great videos,.. when spinning the hub to get the feel of the slight drag should you do this with the truck in neuteral or can it be done while your truck is in park ? …. Thanks

I keep hearing light drag. Until we get trained in person with the teacher, it's still a guessing game.

Brake adjustment

That hole in your axle will allow you to reach the star adjust , I prefer to take out the rubber plug on the back and use a brake adjusting tool , but hey who needs brakes ? They just slow ya down

I want to stick with oem parts. What is everything I need to get to service the rear drums? obviously the shoes but what else? Also thank you so much for this video!

Thanks for the great info... After how many miles do you normally check your brake shoes and drums?

i also have a tacoma with drum brakes and they have a high-pitched squeak when the rear brakes are applied. Especially when the brakes are cold or i am driving on dirt. if they are warm on pavement, i do not hear any noise. Do you know how i might fix this?

Today I changed out my 98 tacoma drum shoes and springs and somehow I messed it up hahaha. Now I have no rear brakes or e-brake. They are rock hard when the engine is off but brake pedal goes limp whith the engine on. I wonder what I did wrong🤔

My drums are not free spinning like those in video. Am I doing something way wrong? I got the drum off but it was super difficult to put back on

Hi! I drive a hilux. And followed your instruction. All good, except that my handbrake can’t hold my truck. I tried to make it real tight that rotors can’t be spin by hand, still can’t stop my the truck from rolling when uphill or downhill. Any suggestions? (New drums and shoes)

Exactly what kind of bit did you use to take down the drum lip? 400k kilometers, got a bit of a lip.

I have a 2018 Toyota Tacoma with 39,000 miles, I live in Florida. Are my drum brakes do for a cleaning and adjustment?

Help please. I spent $170 on my 2010 Toyota Tacoma yesterday just to get the front rotors turned and had thought there was a problem with the brakes because when I apply at the end there's a small hissing sound right before it comes to a stop. Then when I drove my vehicle off it's shaking and shimmering and so I took it back because it was not doing that when I pulled it in there and they drove it and said that they didn't feel that and that there was a recall on the transmission and it must be a transmission problem. It is not and I've also called them back this morning because I'm so pissed off. On the receipt it says they resurfaced the front rotors, resurfaced rear drums, clean and adjust rear shoes. What would make my truck shimmy like this the drums? Or the rear shoes? Or that's resurfacing the rotors? When I called I asked what did you do to my truck and he says he didn't that it was shimmying when they test drove it and it must have just started shimmying whenever they test drove it which is BS. He will not admit anything he done wrong but he does something. So please help me what would cause this? Thank you

Not enough people are liking these videos !

What can you do if your parking brake is stuck? 3rd gen tacoma. 2nd time it has happened. We cant get it to disengage this time.

Nice vid do you just work on Toys?

Can the drums affect the way the pedal feels and how far it travels?

Tony Stark? 👀🧐

What do you use as brake clean?

Your broadcast use of brakekleen washes out any high temperature brake grease from sliding and pivot points in the assembly, leaving them dry. I just blow the dust out with air and stand back away from the cloud of dust.

You should use 2 bolts not 1. Tighten each slowly.

Wait so you have do pump the parking break? Not the actual break? Lol smh 🤦‍♂️ I did mine backwards

Why doesn't anyone show the 5 lug version?

Dammm that stock leaf is horrendous

M14 bolt for the drums guys

!!! you should NOT ever use a power tool on those threaded prybolts... ALWAYS use a hand wrench/ratchet and 2 bolts in there to take it slow and easy one bolt a turn then the other bolt a turn, with a rubber mallet occasionally to tap on the drum... you are much less likely to damage anything by hand wrenching because you ARE NOT stronger than the power drill and if it is that stuck you need to be very ginger with it. i removed my relatives '11 drums for the first time in 12yrs (67k miles) like this, it was rusted a bit to the center area but the shoes were not grabbing at all it slipped right back on with no adjustment,,, I also replaced the paper brake drum gasket its and Automatic so the brake shoes ARE NOT regularly adjusted using the parking brake such as my MT Gen1 Taco that always use handbrake which makes those shoue UBER tight against those drums

Why didn't replace all of that nasty rusted junk? I would have replaced it all for a more long lasting repair.

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Why are drum adjustments always based on "feel?" Is this really how a newly built car from a factory is adjusted? If so, I would think every car would have different tension/drag in its drum out of the factory. Why does everything in automotive have a gauge, instrument, or tool to make adjustments precise and consistent everytime but yet drum adjustments are based on a person's opinion? No matter how many drum adjustment video I watch, I'm still baffled by this.