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- IvylogExplorer IIIBecause of the info above, caging them will not help. If you are not willing to rock it back and forth more aggressively I would chock the wheels, release the brakes, and hit the drums with a large hammer in as many places as you can. If this does not do it then I would take a long chisel and wedge it under metal end of the brake pad at the S cam that applies the brakes with them released. A normal pry bar might just fit and if all else fails a small sharp chisel into the end of the lining at the drum surface will but you will mess up a little of the pad but not enough to hurt the braking.
Your parking brake is on the rear axle only. - KPruittExplorerYes have required air pressure, have set and released parking brake several times.
- wolfe10ExplorerThe best "preventive" is to use them/warm them up immediately before you park.
Parking "cold" and even worse cold and damp is a receipt for "brake shoes will not release".
Your hammer and rocking gently are the proper actions. I don't think caging them will have any impact, as I don't think it a failure in the air cans, but just that the shoes are sticking/rusting to the drums. - MrWizardModeratormoved technology
- sch911ExplorerI assume you have adequate air in the system, and the parking brakes are off right?
- KPruittExplorerIt's the break. Pads pressed against the drums.
- Big_KatunaExplorer IIDrums? Mine have before. Freightliner. I put it in reverse and mashed the pedal.
- WyoTravelerExplorerWill they release using the caging bolt?
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