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Old January 10th 18, 07:12 AM posted to alt.home.repair,rec.autos.tech
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Default Drum brakes - do you disconnect the parking brake cable?

On 10/01/2018 8:01 AM, Mad Roger wrote:
> On Tue, 9 Jan 2018 15:51:35 -0500,
> Tekkie+AK4- wrote:
>
>> I didn't look at any of the pix. It should be ok if not scored or bell
>> mouthed or other problems.

>
> The drums are perfectly fine in that they have 2mm to spare even after 175K
> miles on the original drums.
>
> As you're probably aware, scoring has to be huge to fail a rotor or drum
> (really huge when you look at the specs, it's amazing how huge).
>
> The shoes are $157 for a set, and the cylinders are $102 each at Toyota.
>
> I'm going to look for a rebuild kit because these cylinders are in great
> shape from the looks of it (and I already rebuilt the brake master cylinder
> which was also in great shape).
>

Are you *qualified* to judge?

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