Clicking sound from right rear drum after new drums installed.

True, the fronts do the majority of the stopping. But they shouldn't be doing all the stopping. I couldn't tell a big difference in my pedal when my rears were out of adjustment. I was a little softer but not a huge difference.

 

Just an FYI in case you didn’t know. The rear brake adjusters are actuated by the ebrake. If you don’t use the ebrake the rear brakes don’t adjust and the shoes seem to last forever. If you use the ebrake regularly the front pads last a bit longer and you get a little better braking overall. Also note that if you don’t use the ebrake the cable may seize up and the first time you set it the rear brakes will drag when it is released and you may need to replace the cable.

 

My drive way is on like a 30 degree incline. I afriad to not use my parking break!! The incline makes it a treat to pull into the garage after it ices. I usually just park in the street when that happenes. Luckily it doesn't ice in Dallas that often.

 

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New shoes and drums contact each other on the full mating surfaces. Drums/shoes can often wear differently between the outside edges of the shoes. OF course as they wear they wear together and keep a full mating surface. sometimes they wear in a slight cone (i.e. diameter of the front edge of the drum is different from the inside edge if the brake drum surface. Put a new drum on the "mated" broken in shoes and the shoes try to follow the "Cone" / taper effect in the drum, effectively sliding over and into the drum closed side or over to the backing plate for the shoe mounting surface. As you tap the braked the brakes slide over and "touch" the drum closed end or backing plate on the axle.

I'd just change the shoes and be done with it .....

 

Thank you for the more technical explination. This is what I was trying to say in my first post. Didn't know how to explain it. OP ended up changing the shoes this weekend.

 

I wasn’t responding to your post. I was just posting some general information about 2nd gen drum brakes.

 

Thanks.

 

Three things I don't go cheap on my vehicle, tires, brakes and tennis shoes. Tires for safe driving, brakes for safe stopping, and a good pair of tennis shoes should something else go wrong on the damn thing.