grease in brakes on trailer axle, new shoes?
spawned from my earlier thread if grease is in the brakes, like the brake shoes, do you have to get new brake shoes, or can you just clean them off with some brake cleaner (after wiping most grea...
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Ivylog wrote:Yep, or the old school method of soaking them in gasoline and then lighting them on fire. (edit: you take the shoes off first, if that's not obvious) Probably not environmentally correct these days. Brake cleaner and some sandpaper on the drums to break up and remove the glaze.
After using brake cleaner, I heat them with a torch to force the rest of the oil out of them. Not going to change after 50 years of not replacing just because some oil got on them.
