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Lets talk drums...
In the 80K miles/3.5 years ive had my truck...ive had 2 wheel brake cylinders blow out on me. Once when I was traveling 60mph+ on an icy/wintery road, and another one this past weekend at the local starbucks (ironic I know). The first time I blew out my brakes the dealership took care of the truck under warranty (around 50K miles). This time around I decided to do the brake job myself, what I found was interesting.
Upon opening the drum system that blew up (see photos below), I found the main shoe spring completely missing...its not like theres room in the drum system for this to simply "fall out", so I have no idea if it fell off and wore down or if it was never installed in the first place. This caused the shoe to float around, wear unevenly and completely through the pad into the steel part of the shoe, and eventually having a complete failure ejecting the piston from the brake cylinder. I replaced everything both sides with new drums, shoes, cylinders, etc. And the dealership is paying me 50% of the parts since they feel bad it happened again.
Have any of you had issues with the drum brakes on your truck? Im now of the opinion that these style of brakes are trash on these trucks. Almost every other modern truck has disc brakes, and my understanding from research was the reason toyota went with drums was for cost savings (not off-road performance). Next time around itll be a rear disc conversion for me since so far my track record of drum brakes hasnt been good.
What are your guys thouhts?
In the 80K miles/3.5 years ive had my truck...ive had 2 wheel brake cylinders blow out on me. Once when I was traveling 60mph+ on an icy/wintery road, and another one this past weekend at the local starbucks (ironic I know). The first time I blew out my brakes the dealership took care of the truck under warranty (around 50K miles). This time around I decided to do the brake job myself, what I found was interesting.
Upon opening the drum system that blew up (see photos below), I found the main shoe spring completely missing...its not like theres room in the drum system for this to simply "fall out", so I have no idea if it fell off and wore down or if it was never installed in the first place. This caused the shoe to float around, wear unevenly and completely through the pad into the steel part of the shoe, and eventually having a complete failure ejecting the piston from the brake cylinder. I replaced everything both sides with new drums, shoes, cylinders, etc. And the dealership is paying me 50% of the parts since they feel bad it happened again.
Have any of you had issues with the drum brakes on your truck? Im now of the opinion that these style of brakes are trash on these trucks. Almost every other modern truck has disc brakes, and my understanding from research was the reason toyota went with drums was for cost savings (not off-road performance). Next time around itll be a rear disc conversion for me since so far my track record of drum brakes hasnt been good.
What are your guys thouhts?
