trailer brake shoes

Shops around here cop an attitude if you want your own parts installed.

When I was a wrench. I charged the customer $300 a day my hoist is tied up with their torn down car. They always brought their own parts from checker. And the parts were always wrong.

 

Have you looked at the brake drums on your trailer and ran your finger across them to see if the inside feels like a dish pan from wear, if they have a hi spot on the very outside of drum where the brake shoe never touches its time to replace all brake drums be sure that you dont get any china made drums or brake shoes!

 

I always take my own eggs to the restaurant to have them cook them.

Sorry couldn't help myself.

 

Feel the ridge x2. Bad drums will kill new shoes. Grab your S cam shafts and rock them around. Make sure none of the Scam flange bushings are trashed. Cheaper to fix it all at once.

 

Softer lining, drums last longer.
Harder lining drums wear faster.
All the tractors i have are disc, about 25% of the trailers. Get used to disc's on the tractor and the trailer won't last long.

 

Brown eggs, white eggs, chicken eggs, turkey eggs, quail eggs, fish eggs, so many different kind of eggs.

I always run the harder lining on the drives and softer on trailer. I usually get 3 or 4 sets of shoes per drum on trailer and 2 maybe 3 on truck, What name brand I get depends on where I buy them. I haven't walked to any parts store and was given a selection other than hardness. I do my own brake jobs though. I will usually do S cams, slacks, and bushings with new drums. I only do 60-65k a year now days though.