Drum brakes, shown in Figure 14-5, are the oldest type of brakes still on the road. Their main advantage is that they require less hydraulic pressure to stop your vehicle because the brake shoes tend ...

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A new heavy-duty truck brake drum option in the aftermarket gives customers more flexibility within the ConMet product family ...

Not all cars came equipped with disk brakes on both axles and if you own an older car, like a 2000 Toyota Corolla we’ll see in the tutorial, it’s almost certain that you have drum brakes for the rear ...

Classic Mustang drum brakes have never been big performers. Even when these cars were new, their drum brakes were problematic, noisy, and often pulled badly. Fade was terrible under hard braking, ...

Drum brakes may be older tech, but a lot of vehicles, especially trucks, still use them. What are some of the most common ...

This piece dives into the different types of “brake jobs” and the various options available for brake pads and rotors. What comes to mind when you hear the term “automotive performance?” Most people, ...

Most modern cars have stopped using drum brakes. While there are valid reasons to use drums at the rear, it mostly comes down to cost, which is why you often see them used in many economy cars, trucks ...

We talked about the wide world of disc brakes in our previous look at brake systems. Now let’s jump into the dark arts of drum brakes. Because there are generally more moving parts with a drum brake ...

Modern trucks come equipped with advanced technologies, yet many still rely on drum brakes, a design that has been around for more than a century. Drum brakes remain widely used in the trucking ...

Disc brakes don’t offer much for roadside inspectors to write up. They aren’t get-out-of-jail-free cards, but adjustment violations are nearly unheard of. There aren’t many good reasons left not to ...

You have to remove a bunch of stuff to get to a drum brake. The steps here explain how to do so and what to look for. As you can see in Figure 15-3, you have to remove a bunch of stuff to get to a ...