Odd Brake Shoe Failure. Any Ideas?
Since I'm retired, I like to keep busy and help family and friends with RV maintenance items from time to time. This time, I volunteered to inspect the brakes on my son's 12 year old pop up and repac...
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This only occurred on the secondary shoes (rearward ones) and NOT on smaller primary shoes??
Primary shoes get most of the heat due to being first to make contact and that contact force has to increase to activate rear shoe engagement
Were dust caps missing on bottom of drum?
Does your son do much dirt road/off road driving?
Seen similar scoring from dirt/grit but it was on ALL brake shoes.
Otherwise.....HEAT causes most cracking.
DId you have to back off adjuster a LOT to get drum off?
Primary shoes get most of the heat due to being first to make contact and that contact force has to increase to activate rear shoe engagement
Were dust caps missing on bottom of drum?
Does your son do much dirt road/off road driving?
Seen similar scoring from dirt/grit but it was on ALL brake shoes.
Otherwise.....HEAT causes most cracking.
DId you have to back off adjuster a LOT to get drum off?
