GOT THE BRAKE FLUID TRACKS ON BOTH REAR WHEELS. Went to O'reilly's, bought the wheel cylinders, thought about how I may have done this on a dodge neon for my g.f. but it wouldn't hurt to ask those who know if anything different is to be expected on my truck than on an itty bitty dodge car. Thanks.
Pretty simple procedure really, not much different other than than the size of drums than the way they would be on your girlfriend's Neon except some newer vehicles use a different kind of retainer to hold the shoes to the backing plates rather than the spring retainer on our trucks they are both simple though so not a big deal. Just pop the drum off and remove the springs, shoes, parking brake cable and unscrew the wheel cylinder from the back and bolt the new one in with the old ends in it. You could probably get away with only removing the top springs and wheel cylinder to replace but it but disassembling everything makes it easier for me and it gives you a chance to clean the backing plate and paint it if you wanted .
Casey 16 years old with a 40 year old truck (well almost) 1971 F-100302, T-18 4 speed, 3:55 rear, & an Edelbrock sticker on the ashtray. "Don't worry about what you become, just make sure that you're successful at what you do."- Mr. English "Value what you DO have over that which you don't."- Forrestbump "Wanting can sometimes be better than having, never stop dreaming... it's what keeps us all going."- Forrestbump 1984 Toyota 4x4: 22-R, 5-speed, 3" suspension lift, 35's and 5:29's
He's got a F250. That means you will have to pull the axles and then the hubs to get the drums off. Not a big deal just a couple more steps. Good luck.
Doug
pull the axles? sounds scary... enlighten me please... on the little neon, it was pull drum, unbolt old w.c and put in new, then hook up, bleed, and done. The axles?
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That's not an oil leakThat's SWEATfrom all thatHORSEPOWER!!
Doug Comer wrote:He's got a F250. That means you will have to pull the axles and then the hubs to get the drums off. Not a big deal just a couple more steps. Good luck.
Doug
, I skipped the most important part of all of the info he gave!
Casey 16 years old with a 40 year old truck (well almost) 1971 F-100302, T-18 4 speed, 3:55 rear, & an Edelbrock sticker on the ashtray. "Don't worry about what you become, just make sure that you're successful at what you do."- Mr. English "Value what you DO have over that which you don't."- Forrestbump "Wanting can sometimes be better than having, never stop dreaming... it's what keeps us all going."- Forrestbump 1984 Toyota 4x4: 22-R, 5-speed, 3" suspension lift, 35's and 5:29's
Doug Comer wrote:He's got a F250. That means you will have to pull the axles and then the hubs to get the drums off. Not a big deal just a couple more steps. Good luck.
Doug
robroy's thread is very detailed. but you jack up the truck remove the tire remove the 8 or so bolt from the axle. pull the axle out. sit is aside. undo the nuts in the center of the hub keeping thewm in order. pull the drum. replace the brake stuff. then put it all back together packing grease in the bearings and bending the locking tabs back over. so forth and so on.
I shall check it out. thanks. sorry for the delayed reply. seems my account totally tanked. had to set up new email and fordification account. cozadlance is now cozadlance2.
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GOT THE BRAKE FLUID TRACKS ON BOTH REAR WHEELS. Went to O'reilly's, bought the wheel cylinders, thought about how I may have done this on a dodge neon for my g.f. but it wouldn't hurt to ask those who know if anything different is to be expected on my truck than on an itty bitty dodge car. Thanks. 
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That's SWEAT from all that HORSEPOWER!! 
, I skipped the most important part of all of the info he gave!
I beleive "70" pointed ya in the right direction 