So I found out some things. first, when putting the new drum on and replacing some of the bearings, I found a few trouble things. First, the right rear was missing the brake magnet retaining clip, which is probably not a big deal. But upon looking at the magnet that fell off, I discovered my suspension had failed. The right side, rear axle shackle had cracked and had elongated holes. This unit was 49 months old when I found this, shows just how they build them!
So I put the new drum on the left rear, relubed the rest of the bearings and put new bearings on the right side. Both axles I think, but at least the front axle. I set them with the axle jacked up, torqued to 50 ish pounds while spinning. Then held the wheel still while I backed the nut off and turned it back in finger tight. Then loosed it till the cotter pin went in. The rear tires also wear so much more due to turning, so I swapped them front to rear. I was going to replace the rears next year, but figured I would swap them around, maybe run them two more years and just buy 4 new ones. At that point they are all 6 years old and need to be replaced anyways.
So next thread are three pictures of the broken shackle and the rear tire off sitting next to the front tire. The corners on the rear are really rounded off.
