PennSilverTaco's "Perfect 5-Lug Regular Cab" Build, Aspergers, and General BS MegaThread!

If those wheel cylinders froze up then the shoes wouldn't expand or contract.

 

The ABS module didn’t cause the problem with the rear brakes.
The only thing that expands in the rear brakes is the parking brake lever and the wheel cylinder.
The parking brake lever doesn’t require the brakes to be bled. So that pretty much tells me the cylinders are bad. They normally leak and not seize up. But then again, I live in the south. We don’t have the rust issues you all have.

Personally, I’d let Toyota do the module (not really) then have Pete do the rears. You’ll save a lot of money.
The cylinders are just two 10mm bolts and a brake line disconnect/reconnect. Maybe 20 mins extra later per side. Be sure to try and get the Advics cylinders if you can. They are OEM supplier and good stuff.

 

They’d likely expand and not contract, wear the drums and shoes faster.
But it rare to see them frozen up down here where I live.

 

Usually l either see them leaking from the boots or with broken bleeder screws.

 

Me too.
I never seen one seized that wasn’t driven daily.
I seen them seized on vehicles that sat for years, like 5+ years.
But never on one driven regularly.

 

Same here, it seems odd that any daily driver would seize up.

 

@PennSilverTaco Charlie you called your rear shoes "linings" it made me chuckle as l haven't heard that term in about 40 years. You used to actually take your old brake shoes to a specialist and they would replace the "lining", the process was called re-lining.

 

From what I was told, the rear brake shoes are fine (though they are getting replaced very soon), but what ever allows the brakes to actually operate is seized.

 

You could do the same with your clutch disc too.
We've done it on a tractor. Much cheaper that way.
But that was 20 years ago. China probably make a piece of shit disc much cheaper now.
But I still wouldn't buy it.

 

The wheel cylinder pushes the shoes apart and into the drum, it's sounding like they froze up somehow.

 

What tails do you want?

 

What are you running now? And which one is busted?

 

Don't remember what brand, and it's hardly busted (just cracked), but it's the right one; I have no idea how it happened.

 

Was gonna say I have at least right OEM tail..might have a pair IDK

 

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