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I swear you edited out 4 hours of frustration and cursing. Come on, be honest...

I have a 2015 Jeep Wrangler JK just like this, note you need to adjust the parking brakes before reinstalling the calibers and pads. Once you install the brakes you can’t access the adjuster. Install the rotor, tighten brake shoes til you can no longer turn the hub, then back off until the hub turns freely

To the lady mechanic that did this video ...... GREAT JOB! I think that you were one of the few, if not the only, mechanic that had the guts to tackle this video. Those springs are a pain in the @$$ and you showed that difficulty as well. THANK YOU for the help.

Thank you for making a realistic video for this. I'm a mechanic and this job drove me nuts! Couldn't believe how difficult it was to get those stupid springs on...

For those wondering about adjusting the brake pads, before assembling the caliper, adjust the brake pads until you feel drag on the drum, then back off just until you feel less drag. Not too far though. You still want to feel a very little drag to actually seat in the pads. The adjuster in the hand brake will pick up the slack when needed.

The addition of the spider was a nice touch!

Nice job, I've been doing brakes for 40 years, did a lot of front drums and still do on rare occasions front drum brake shoes. Watching this video I learned something new, thanks for sharing your knowledge and uploading this video.

Having tried this without this video, I am glad to see someone more experienced than I have to fight with this assembly as well! Great video and has taught me a few tricks to make this easier!

Thank you for this great video. Too many times people will cut away and TA - DA!....everything is assembled (or disassembled) but you showed all the struggles and their resolution. Thanks for showing the REALITY of this procedure.

This is exactly what one needs to remove and re-assemble the parking brake shoes on a Jeep Wrangler. It took me all of 10 min to assemble the shoes AFTER I viewed this video. Bravo!

Just did this repair, let me save you a ton of time and swearing. Get yourself visegrips, some with long pointed jaws. Use those to grab the end of the long spring. By having a death grip on the end you can articulate the spring to the insane angle needed to get the spring in the hole. Whoever designed this assembly should be fired and never engineer again.

Very brave to attempt this on camera. I just did this on an 09 SRT8 Challenger. Total PITA, and I've done at least a 100 regular drum brake overhauls, no problem. I had to devise my own way of doing it. I put the nails and butterfly clips on the shoes, first, because its much easier then. Then I worked on the anchor end, and in my particular app, the single crazy-powerful spring. Like you, I used some c-clamps to hold the shoes from skeetering away from each other and holding them flat to the backing plate, when I'm trying to install that (damn)spring. Once that's on, it's easy to install the adjuster and spring on the other end of the shoes. First side took a couple hours, at least. Other side took a 1/2 hour.

First, the was the best video I could find on the topic. I thought that it was very good step-by-step. Second, it felt like there were some 'magic moments' - at least two. These were when we made it from one step to the next with some part missing in the middle. Don't get me wrong, I think it would have been much tougher to do the job without this video. Magic moments: how does she get the brake lever disengaged from the brake cable? The manufacturer's manual (and Chilton) would have you take apart the center console. Unsure how she did it, but it's pretty easy if you pop the c-clip (or is it an e-clip?) off and then do it. You can easily pop that c-clip back on after re-attaching it to the cable during reassembly. Second magic moment (at least for me) was the spring reassembly portion. Here's what I finally did that made it (relatively) easy. Connect the back long spring and do what she did. Make sure you have the lever in at least the top pad's notch. Slide the front/second spring into place and put the spring first into the BOTTOM pad. Then use needle nose pliers to put it in the top pad. Much easier! I struggled for like two hours on this at first. Changed my tactics to those above and popped both brakes (left & right) in in about 30 mins each.

Sue, I'd let you work on my vehicle any day of the week. I was clinching my teeth watching you have to deal with the crappy engineering design on these brakes, but you gave it hell. And always a big Thank You to 1A Auto for all the videos!

You made that job look easy .. That butterfly clip is a joy . Why they didn't stick to the old type with the coil spring and round cap . Thank you helped a lot today

Just did this based on this video. You have my absolute respect!

There is a special tool for removing drum brake springs. Spring pliers. Save your knuckles and time.

Thanks for posting this video. I'm old enough to have done enough drum brake jobs, but this was my first time doing parking brakes for a 4WD vehicle with rear disc brakes. Probably the least fun I've had under a car lately, but with a few tips from your video, the job was bearable. Had I not watched this first, I probably would have pulled the rear axle shafts/hubs out to make room, but after watching you work around the axle components, I did the same. For me, vise-grip needle-nose pliers made all the difference. Struggled with the springs until I pulled those out.

If my wrangler ever needs the e brakes done i think ill just sell it and let the new owner handle it ! LOL you did a great job thanks for showing the way

Make sure that you reassemble the brake adjuster on the drivers side in the up position. down on the passemger side.

If you’re having issues, use two small zip ties. One around the top of the metal flange to hold the eye bolt housing together, and one around the eye bolt tied the frame of the Jeep to hold the flange tight to the backing plate. This is keep the flange stationary while you mess with the springs/shoes. Hope this helps!

Is no one going to mention the massive spider?!

Great job. My 06 Wrangler ebrake does nothing, so I pulled the rotor to see what it looked like. I would have sworn you needed to pull the axle to get to everything. Explains why a shop quoted me $450 to do the job. Thx for the video.

Sooooo.....I see lots and lots of swearing and throwing stuff in my future. Lmao

I would send you a picture of my Jeep in the driveway with the tires off. I got the shoes off with springs attached somehow but could not get the new ones on. This was EXACTLY what I was looking for. Thank you very much.

This is a great video. Thank you. The first brake took me 5 hours (ridge on the drum portion of the parking brake + the wheel sensor just. didn't. want. to. come. out.). Second one took an hour. This video really helped when sequencing the assembly of the parking brake.

Thank you for the video. it is always a good thing to see how someone else does something, because sometimes we are so convinced that our method is the best, that we cannot see a simpler way...

I recommend blunting the cutter edges for use as you show. Don't damage the springs so much. I used to do this for tie wire and end nippers when placing rebar.

After shoving scredrivers through seals on old 70s drumbrakes I learned to swear more and then disk breaks seemed so much better in my 80s cars. When I got my ford faimont 2000 it had so much tec. Seperate lines and the fuild was divided into four in the resivoir. Then there is swerve control, traction control and abs which can brake making a buzzing noise for an actuator I guess. happy to let it be done by mechanic who said the handbrake pad was separate. I assumed it still pushed on disk with a tiny pad. I think this is what I should have pictured and maybe you have saved me big time as I have to relase the handbrake a little bit more. They try to make 2 clicks enough but it sticks a little in reverse. Not if I drive forwards. It may just be more physical adjuster than the cable. So it seems like Im headed back to the 70s style adjusting with screwdriver or old tool through that little hole and I bet its a knuckle basher. Righty tighty can be cunfusing with vision obscured and tight lossens pads. I can still remember some one using a file to get a ridge off the drums before putting back on. I really hope that is how mine is made and mechanic were not thining of newer vehicles. But my big surprise was all that was also on my 02 honda st1100 not swerve control but adds about 3000 on new price with good to go switches and lights bank angle sensing but 4 separate carbies all hidden where the tanks used to be. Still to heavy for me to be lifting solo and even cheating the changing plugs was much harder job than necessary. Please let this hand brake be simple

This video was so helpful. Thank you for posting it. Man those springs are no joke, made me question my faith!

Kudos for showing how much of a struggle it is to reassemble these brakes rather than just cutting to "and now it's done" .

I’m quite impressed at your lack of curse words.

Thank you .... Those springs are the worse. I'm glad I watched what you did.

how should the adjuster be set? Too bad you didnt go over that in more details...maybe you could make another separate video just about that topic..:-) Otherwise, well done video. Thanks!

The video is excellent. Step by step. Wish there was more to include the adjustment of the new installation. Thank you!

Nice video, always a frustrating time with those springs......

Almost perfect video. It was perfect as I have this job to do. I only wish you went through adjusting the parking brake. Would love to see that from an actual mechanic... THank you

literally the WORST thing to have to replace on a car. I've done it many times and every single time i want to burn the world down. Great job not smashing it to bits at every step :)

Great instructional video and the camera angles shown were great. Great job.

Great job! I only have a couple add ons for DIY'ers. Always wear safety glasses when working with springs and be really careful around the tone ring/exciter ring. Otherwise very well done.

Real good vid it helped a lot. Loved the step by step details. Thanks so much

Awesome video! Nice and thorough walk-through. Thank you! 👍🏼

Some useful tricks on how to put together the double springs, saved me lots of time, thanks!

Nice video. I always recommend wearing eye protection when working with springs. :)

Thank you so much for your support and knowledge

This lady is exemplary! 🔥🔥🔥

Awesome tutorial!!! Thanks!

Great video, doing a 2014 Jeep Wrangler Sport parking brake as I write. The tip using a welders clamp I'm going to try out. Seeing you doing this made my job much easier. The spider scared me! Was that on purpose : ). Two items I question. The anti seize route I may omit and use a light grease. Both types are probably fine. And where the shoes rest on the high spots, I will grease those too.

Thanks so much for this video. It’s an exact fit for what we worked on today. Better than a shop manual. Just a nice walk thru, step-by-step!

did you first de-tension the ebrake cable at the ebrake hand lever mechanism (using the locking pin method)

Thank you for your knowledge and support 😅

Great instructions. I am dreading doing this job.

Thanks! Fantastic video - HUGE help.

6:00 - "Hey lady, I'm tryna sleep here... oh no she's got a weapon BAIL OUT!"

You can hook both orange springs on the bench and then turn the whole assembly into place

Thanks for the little tips. Depsite my friends complaining about going to youtube.

Great video, you saved my day thank you very much. Keep up good work and videos 👍👍👍👍👍🙏

Ive looked at all Video's on youtube available for this Process, Excellent Quality, and a Beautiful Job.mechanism is completly seized on both sidesof my 09, What a Pain in the A@@ working at this on the ground, on your knees

Great video. Very informative!

Excellent video, thank you. I appreciate that. I will never do this myself now.

Life saver. Thanks for the tips.

Great video, very helpful. Did anyone notice the spider at 5:58

Having followed your instructions, I ran into a big problem when you got to the e-brake pivot. Mine was frozen, and you didn't say how to get it out. That was a big problem for me.

Also applicable to the entire Dodge Nitro production run. 07-12.

wow great videos well done

Can we get some footage uploaded on how to adjust the parking brake? I have a repair manual, but it’s always great to see it done

Awesome video! Thank you soooo much!

Great vid! Very helpful!

great video! Thank you for uploading!

thanks so very vey much - my 2008 Jeep Liberty is the same - and its a PITA (and my ebrake refuses to hold much)

Great video, thank you!

Great mechanic

You forgot to lube the ends of the shoes in the pivot and adjuster as well as the backing plate.

Great video. Made it easy

Is there a video on how to adjust the e brake properly

I like the spider at 6:03. 😂

how to check please the problem of loose foot parking brake in dodge durango 2012 ? has to change shoes ? cables ? or just we need to adjust it ?

very well made video. just started working on my daily driver 2008 jeep patriot drumssss noooooo

I hate that all these new model cars use an electronic eBrake, I so much rather have the mechanical one. Do the JLs still have a mechanical eBrake ?

Great video, very descriptive.

Great video.

Thank you.

I did the exact same one, but for some reason, my brake shoe is stuck on the pivot instead of the actuator. And it is not engaged on the actuator. Not sure why or even how that is possible. So it wont expand or contract now. Any suggestions?

Very good indeed.

Great video. Where did you get the Hardware Kit ?

Thank you very much,...lesson learned! Now, the swearing begins too,.eh Shawn?

I wonder if it would be easier to remove the axle ? I spent nearly 2 hours busting my knuckles working around the axle flange and barely got anywhere.

I love this girl 😂

😢I have a 2012 Liberty. Do you do housecall repairs?

Doing this job right now and I also have a little spider hanging out

Is there a link for the parking brake shoes? I did a search on the site but cannot find anything for them. I'm also looking for the hardware. Do you have a kit like the front and rear brakes? Thank you and thanks a bunch for an excellent video!

Did the cameraman have a few beers for lunch? Lol

if you guys are also having a hard time with the springs, like I was grab you a pair of strong, thin needle nose, put them in a vise, and then bend one side

2013 has a double to spring ...good luck

Is there a reason why the Hub with the 5 bolt not remove ? It seem to be in the way of the entire process... are they just not removable?

No mention of which way to turn the adjuster to loosen the drum. You need to turn it to the front. Still couldn't get mine off on the passenger side. It turns At 8:35 the E-Brake pivot magically comes out. Like to know how to do that.

I knew there had to be a way to get them and that back spring on with brute force! Most of the millennial tubers that don’t know old style brakes talk of pulling the axles to make it EASY for them 😂 Thanks for the how to 👍 Millennials pay attention to mom not what you learneded on the web😉

I wouldn’t use cutters when putting the spring back in but that’s just me. If I were to do this I’d end up cutting the spring

Question: Is the parking brake on a late model (mine is a 2012) Jeep Grand Cherokee ONLY on the rear brakes?