When the rear shoes get grease or brake fluid on them, they are essentially
ruined. :-(
When I grease my rear hubs, I remove the brake drum and carefully wipe away any
excess grease the got out past the outer seal.
Doug Braun
'72 Spit
At 11:23 AM 1/30/03 +0000, Richard Gosling wrote:
>Check rear shoes, and replace if necessary. They don't need replacing often
>- particularly if you don't adjust them frequently! However, if grease has
>made it into the area where the shoes sit while the hubs were being greased,
>the grease may have containated the shoes - don't know if this gets burned
>or worn off eventually.
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