Rear brake rebuild

Hi All

i bought a rear brake overhaul kit for an 82 gti tin top.
could anyone help me with a step by step guide or video to change this ?

I Just took off the drum and a couple of springs but the lower one is stubborn.
Any particular order I should do this?

Cheers
Denis

I started mine at the weekend and was going to do a 'How To' but I have a delay at the moment. Not got as far as dismantling the rear shoes but the springs should come off ok, if you damage one it matters not as you will replace them as part of the rebuild. I would think the install stage will be more sequence critical than the removal.

Has anyone else done this and have a walk through?  I got this far haha

Remove the adjuster spring - the spring that is vertical in your photo. Then remove the shoes and springs as one - on the far right and far left are the spring, cup, and pin that holds the shoes in place. Hold the cup and quarter turn the pin. The cup and spring can then be removed. Once both are done the shoes and all the springs should come out as one. Then unclip the handbrake cable from the rear shoe. Take step by step photos so you can see where each part goes.

Do you have a Haynes manual?
It's all in there…
A tip….. Only do 1 side at a time so you have something to reference when reassembling the shoes.

You don't even attempt to remove the long bottom spring while the shoes are in the drum, you leaver the shoes off the car then remove the bigger springs, You have to push in the turn the clips which hold the shoes on and you may need to hold the pin at the back as it may turn as well? (seen in picture)

Also looks like your inner seal from your rear wheel bearing is still stuck on the axel, that needs to come off and pushed back on the drum.

Denward, have you finished the overhaul mate? I started mine today but the drum wont go back on!

KSD said

Denward, have you finished the overhaul mate? I started mine today but the drum wont go back on!

Over adjusted then by sound of it

Exactly what the problem was Volkswarren! All sorted now thanks.

I actually started this and put it back together.  Will do it when I'm better set after research.   Haven't brought the car for a spin yet but on every half rotation of the wheel there is a click as if there is something rubbing.   Any ideas what this would be ?

Silly question maybe, but are all your wheel bolts the same length? Sometimes one can be a touch longer and this will catch on the brake shoe.

Occasionally the little silver top cap holding on the spring that holds the shoe plate in place can end up at an angle and catch the something. I think it's a case of take the drum off and check everything is where is should be again.

I have also seen where the adjuster wedge is not fully up, and pulled down so that the shows are adjusted out and the drum can't go on.
I have also seen where the shoes are out of position to the backing plate, and not equal, as well as they can be out of position to the wheel cylinder.  The cylinder has a protrusion, as well as a recessed side.  The Protrusion is infront of the shoe or behind it, and the shoe rides in the recess.



Brake reference photo, notice that the adjuster wedge is down, as these shoes have been on a while, normally on a new shoe installed you see but the spring hole out of the shoe barely below the parallel bar.