RP179 Brake question

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   SH,

You should also see excessive heat from that hub.  Like the semi on the road with a smoking wheel.  After adjusting brakes to drum, the only thing that would effect the further adjustment is the self adjuster on that wheel.  I have had drum brakes fail when a self adjuster is not working correctly or part of that mechanism is not working correctly.  Perhaps you can remove the drum and have someone operate brake and see what shoes do.  The other thing and this is outside the box, is a possible issue with ebrake switch, long shot especially when talking about voltage to both brakes.  Lasty here's a link to a guy fixing a sticking brake with bad bushing.  Might help.  Good luck.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xSgQp10gEU

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mcarter Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List podders Helping podders - pHp Joined: 07 Apr 2016 Location: Greenbrier, TN Online Status: Offline Posts: 3419	Topic: RP179 Brake question Posted: 20 Jun 2018 at 8:39am
	SH, You should also see excessive heat from that hub. Like the semi on the road with a smoking wheel. After adjusting brakes to drum, the only thing that would effect the further adjustment is the self adjuster on that wheel. I have had drum brakes fail when a self adjuster is not working correctly or part of that mechanism is not working correctly. Perhaps you can remove the drum and have someone operate brake and see what shoes do. The other thing and this is outside the box, is a possible issue with ebrake switch, long shot especially when talking about voltage to both brakes. Lasty here's a link to a guy fixing a sticking brake with bad bushing. Might help. Good luck. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xSgQp10gEU
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StephenH Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List podders Helping podders - pHp Joined: 29 Nov 2015 Location: Wake Forest, NC Online Status: Offline Posts: 6465	Posted: 19 Jun 2018 at 10:39pm
	I noticed on our recent trip that the door side tire was wearing much more quickly than the slide-side tire. I have no idea why this should be the case. The wear pattern is not indicating an alignment issue. The one thing I did notice is that again, the brakes on the door side are very tight. I had adjusted them more than once to allow the wheel to not drag, but again, the brakes on the door side were so tight that I could not spin the wheel. I could turn it but it was tight. Why would the brakes on the door side get so tight when the brakes on the slide side do not? Could the tight brakes be contributing to the excessive tire wear? I don't think I am loading the door side that much heavier than the slide side. Anybody else have this problem of excessive tire wear and tight brakes on the door side? If so, were you able to solve it? If so, how?
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