Strange Problem: Wheel Locking Up Randomly

1st thing.

 

Pull the drums, I'd bet money you'll find some damage to the shoes and/or springs.

I had almost the same problem loud clunk, 1000 miles later rear tire locked up. Fucked up my shoes and broke some springs somehow.

 

theres your problem

 

I'm not sure, tbh.

In my case I set the ebrake and it locked up. ( I am assuming they're related...) A little forward and reverse throttle and it broke loose. Then a month or more and 1000 miles later one of my rears locked up. It would roll backwards but not at all forward.

Sounds pretty similar to his issue, IMO.

 

I would check the drums as someone else suggested. If there is an issue with a drum when heat builds it can cause a lock-up but it normally does not just release as it seems to do in your situation. Also if you get the back off the the ground you can listen to the 3rd and see if anything sounds out of order. Just would not want that to happen at 70mph.

 

Whats that wire thingy----Just kidding--there you go-the problem.

 

...?

 

Gonna do the alignment as soon as my outer tie rod ends come in (hopefully tomorrow). That will eliminate the VSC problem.

Still haven't been able to recreate the problem. Been driving with my VSC/ABS killswitch engaged so it could be a computer problem.

Question, does anybody else sense their brake pedal go further in when they engage the parking brake? I may be overly sensitive to things now, but I feel like it hadn't done that before.

 

In theory it should go in further in theory. The parking brake pushes the pads out to the drum which means the wheel cylinder for the brake pads has to travel further to engage the pads so in turn the pedal may travel further.

 

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Op, pull the drum and check brakes. It sounds like something wrong there, you don't want that wheel to lock on you on the highway.

 

Sorry to bring up a old thread, but did you ever get to the bottom of this? My 05 has done this twice in the past week.

 

YES--it was a couple post back-broken spring

 

Maybe rigging your recovery equipment in a safer more efficient way and doing significantly more digging would help.

 

This is an old thread, the dude owns a company now I think.

Anyway if one of your rear wheels locks up and you have no dash lights on (VSC, ABS, etc.) it's probably the e brake stuck in the drum. Whack the drum a few times with a small sledge and it should come free.