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08-19-2013, 12:31 AM
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How to Make Drum Brakes Live Through Mud
Okay, so it seems the only MAJOR weakness with my truck is the fact that if I put it in some slop, the shoes out back are quickly destroyed. I cut some of the backing plate away at the bottom to serve as a drain hole but that did not help. My next idea is to carry a pump up sprayer with soapy water and spray in the gap between the drum and the backing plate right after being in the mud.
Anyone have any ideas? I am tired of changing shoes! I know the ideal solution is to trash the drums in favor of discs but I do not have the facilities to do that right now. |
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08-19-2013, 01:19 AM
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Re: How to Make Drum Brakes Live Through Mud
Its kinda one of those things you get use too.Mud will eat up brakes no matter drums or disc.
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08-19-2013, 01:25 AM
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Re: How to Make Drum Brakes Live Through Mud
Drum brakes simply aren't great on a rig you plan on mudding freqently...
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08-19-2013, 10:52 AM
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Re: How to Make Drum Brakes Live Through Mud
Ditch the rear brakes all together. Use fronts and a driveline brake.
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08-26-2013, 11:27 PM
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Re: How to Make Drum Brakes Live Through Mud
Your joking right???!!!???
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08-27-2013, 07:24 AM
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Re: How to Make Drum Brakes Live Through Mud
I've never had an issue with drum brakes in mud. All 4wds were drum brake all around for many decades and they worked fine. Whatever washes in washes out it seems. Cutting out the backing plates will allow much larger debris in,like stones. That'll play hell on the brakes for sure.
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08-29-2013, 02:13 PM
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Re: How to Make Drum Brakes Live Through Mud
Your best bet is wash out the mud when it's still soft & moist,way easier on stuff then.Disc brakes are just as bad if you let the mud set-up.I rigged up a K25 for a buddy of mine last winter that had been a mud bogger,it had sat without being washed & the discs were just as bad if not worse for mud being packed into them than the drums.
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08-29-2013, 02:16 PM
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Re: How to Make Drum Brakes Live Through Mud
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08-30-2013, 09:02 AM
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Re: How to Make Drum Brakes Live Through Mud
Driveline brakes are to hold a parked truck in place. Bad things can happen binding on the driveshaft to stop a few tons. They are thin wall tubing and your u-joints would not be too happy,either.
The simple solution has already been giving...wash`em out. Anything that can get in can come back out
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