Clicking sound from right rear drum after new drums installed.

Installed new drums, just to replace the rusty old ones. I did not change the shoes, since they were still "good". Now when I have a rotational clicking sound from the right rear drum when I apply fairly hard brake pressure. I took them off and inspected them, but every 'looks' fine. Any ideas? Should I change the shoes? Thanks for any input.

2010 TRD Sport 6 lug

EDIT: Turns out these drums were not true. They continued to squeal horribly when coming to a complete stop. Ended up having O'Reilly's resurface them, and they are smooth as silk now.

 

Probably due to the mismatched surface area between the shoe faces and the drum face. They will wear in together eventually. Why did you replace the drums? Rust?

The new ones will also rust.

 

The unmatched wear surfaces are my theory also, but I don't have a lot of experience in this area. I got the new drums because the old ones were rusty. Worked fine, but were ugly. Figured it was easier to buy a new set and paint those, rather than sand and paint the old ones. Thanks

 

Some things are best left alone. ( If it ain't broke, don't fix it ).

 

Did you adjust the rear brake shoes?

 

I didn't at first, but I did try "messing" with that after I noticed the problem. I could definitely spend a bit more time trying to adjust them properly.

 

Hit the shoes with some sand paper to smooth any ridges or grooves, adjust as needed. If the adjustment is loose they have room to shift around

 

This is what I use, perfect adjustment first time.

 

What is that called? And where would you find one?

 

Brake drum adjuster tool, any parts store

 

Clean, adjust and lube the sliding surfaces of the show contacting the backing plate with some good brake grease. Had to do it on a chevy truck where a customer didn’t tighten his lug nuts and lost 5 lug nuts and wallowed our the drum and wheel holes. Lucky guy didn’t ball up his truck.

 

Pulled off the drum, hit the pads with some sand paper, cleaned them all up with some brakleen, lubed the sliding surfaces (as well as possible without removing springs), and adjusted them. The problem is 90% gone. I really have to push on the pedal to make the sound happen. I think it will go away as the pads wear to match the new drum. If the problem comes back, I'll just go all the way and change the pads and springs and have the drum checked and turned if necessary. Or, maybe I'll sell a kidney and do a drum to disc conversion. Thanks for the help, guys.

 

I would go ahead and replace the shoes. Its not expensive, brake shoes can be bought at Autozone for $30. You've created a potentialy dangerous situation. Sounds like the shoe is only making partial contact with the drum. The clicking noise would be the shoe 'skipping' on the drum. You're front brakes may be doing most of the work now. Which could lead to quicker brake fade during the event of heavy breaking. I would buy the tool mentioned above, new shoes and re-do it.

EDIT: Link for brake shoes.

https://www.autozone.com/brakes-and...shoes&fromString=search&isIgnoreVehicle=false

 

Good point. I'll go ahead and replace the shoes and springs this weekend.

 

Good call! I had my differential replaced under warranty, the tech didn't adjust the shoes correctly. They were just barely contacting the surface of the drum. The first time I had to slam on the brakes, I lost all brakeing power after a few seconds. The fronts were doing all the work and QUICKLY heated up and faded. I had to pull the truck into the ditch to avoid causing a pile up on the highway. Hopped the curb and knocked my front suspension out of alignment. Thankfully no damage other than that and my now glazed front pads and rotors.

 

I wouldn't hit the panic button just yet. The front brakes already do "most of the work". If the shoes were way out of adjustment the pedal would be very low/close to the carpet

 

Automotive Brake Resetting Gauge, you can get it from Amazon or Auto store. get the aluminum one not the plastic

 

I may be preaching to the choir here, but when you replace the shoes, remember that there is a definite front and rear shoe. Some folks don't know there's a difference.

 

Changed the shoes and springs, and I cleaned and lubed all the rubby parts. So far, so good. Will update if problem returns.

 

Glad to hear that fixed the issue. I did my rear brakes this weekend as well! No more squeakey!! I can't stand squeaking brakes, makes my truck sound like I don't take care of it. Sad part is, the old shoes had probably another 50,000mi before needing to be replaced. They had pleanty of pad left. I had taken it apart previously and cleaned and readjusted the shoes. Still squeaked. So I decided to just replace everything. Truck is coming up on 80,000mi so I won't have to worry about the rears for awhile. I'm not suprised I have 80,000 on the original front pads and rotors. My Tundra had 120,000mi on it before the pads started needing to be replaced.