Hello

My daughter has a 2002 Accent . She has been complaining to me :grin: about a slight grinding sound coming from the rear brakes when the brakes are applied . So today I re-did the fronts and took the back drums off and there is at least 80% left on the shoes . No sign of anything out of order there at all . I'm thinking that the shoes are out of adjustment to the point that they arent contacting the drums enough and making that slight dragging sound ?? That sound correct ?

2nd question , are those rear drum brakes auto adjusting or do they need to be manualy adjusted ?

Thanks for any help


Jeff

Hi,
while a grinding sound from drum-brakes is normal after long time parking (due to slight surface rust buildup), it is less when the rear brakes are correctly adjusted. Yes, the rear are self adjusting. BUT, they can only do it if the hand?parking brake is set correctly. to insure this, do the following:

First, you loosen that center nut (under the center console at its rear end), until there is a tiny bit of play between the nut and the "YOKE". Then you adjust the rear brake shoes brakes. For this, you have to remove the wheels & drums.
<< OR >>,
You let rear brakes do it themselves. Now, since the rear "SELF ADJUSTERS" are in the proper position (due to the fact, that the h-brake free-play has been established), they will adjust the rear brakes bit-by-bit every time you apply the brakes.
At the beginning, you may notice that the pedal may be too low, but it will come up more & more after each brake application.
Once the brake is fully “SELF ADJUSTED” (which won’t take too long), you will never need to adjust the foot or hand brake again. A correctly adjusted h-brake must have 6 to 9 notches when pulled.



This post has been edited by duke: Feb 6 2005, 10:28 AM

Ok Thanks Duke , her hand brake when applied comes up almost to the top . I will do what you said .

Thanks Again for the help



Jeff