Brake problem

[doyle369]

Fitted new shoe on my corsa sport








But I've run into a problem trying to fit new rear brake shoes on My Corsa B 1.6 . In a nut shell, the only way I can get the drum back on is with a hammer, it's that tight a fit, obviously wrong. I've slackened the self adjuster 'bolt' off to the end of the thread and as far as I can tell, that's the only way to bring the shoes as close together as possible before refitting the drum. The bottom of both shoes rests on a fixed pivot point with no adjustment. The tops of the shoes are brought at close together by adjustment of the self adjusting 'bolt'. The pistons on the slave cylinder are resting on the internal spring as there is no hydraulic pressure in the system. Am I missing something here? I've never had this amount of grief before, not that I've ever done a Corsa.



I've cleaned the thread up on the adjuster, smeared it with a small amount of oil and would it in to the end of the thread. No more adjustment there.

[corsabbww]

fitted some shoes on a corsa the other week had the same problem it turned out to be the backing plate of the drum was bent

[LesterPiglet]

Have you cleaned the ridge of rust from inside the drum where the shoes don't touch?

[RICHNJENN01]

have you wound everything back including the handbrake dont want to mention the obvious