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Re: Help Drum Breaks
I'd say that truck had a brake job not long before it went idle. If it were me I'd take a few more photos to remember exactly where everything was, Put a pan under it and spray it down with brake cleaner (don't blow the dust out with an air hose as that blows asbestos dust all over the place) and then I'd pull it apart and rebuild or replace the wheel cylinders, clean up the shoes with a wire brush Sand the lining with some 180 or so sand paper to get the glaze off and put it back together.
Run some sandpaper around the inside of the drum to clean the contact area for the shoes off, pack the bearings and put it all back together, adjust and bleed the brakes and you have that part done.
The shoes look fine but I wouldn't trust the wheel cylinders without either the rebuild or replacement.
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48 Chev 3100 that will run a 292 Six.
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