drum brakes

[boundstaffpress]

This weekend I put new brake cylinders on the back of my truck. Bled and adjusted them. The front has been bled before. I has a lot more pedal now than before. I still lock up my passenger front wheel before the others. I have to plan a lot in advance to get my rig slowed down enough to not skid that tire.

To get the front drum off of my 67 k10 do I need to remove the hub and repack the bearings? I bought a cylinder rebuild kit for the fronts, but was held up when the drum didn't want to come off the hub.

Any ideas?

[Palf70Step]

I don't know about the 4x4, but on 2wd the front drum is riveted to the hub. You have to remove the hub to get the drum off. I forgot this when I first did my 70 (about 30 years between front drum brake jobs). I had the rivets removed when I had the drums turned so I won't have to do that again.

[jacobs]

When you remove your front drum, you'll most likely find grease or brake fluid on the brake shoes and drum. The best thing to do if that's what you find is to replace all your front shoes and clean your drums of all foreign material. I've cleaned shoes of grease with brake clean and had good sucess but that doesn't always work. Another possibility is someone in the past only replaced the shoes on one side either left or right. If that happened, shoes are rarely the same and have a different coefficient of friction.

To remove your drums you'll need to remove the locking hubs, then remove the wheel bearing adjusting nuts. You'll need a special socket that's available at most parts houses for the adjusting nuts.

[boundstaffpress]

Thanks. I definately had one back shoe that was covered in brake fluid. I'll pull it again and hit it with some break cleaner.
My dad has one of the adjusting tools. Looks like I'll just drive it till we can make a connection before I tear into the fronts.