"audeogod" > wrote in message
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> Hello all. New to the forum. I have a 98 Chrysler Cirrus that has a
> problem with the rear passenger side brakes.
>
> 3 times now, I have replaced the wheel cylinder, brake shoes, springs, and
> the drum, and 4 times now(yeah, it's burnt up again) it has burnt
> completely up because of a shoe that is dragging against the drum
> constantly and building up heat and then destroying everything inside of
> the drum. Everything was put back new each time except for the brake
> adjuster, which all the local autoparts stores tell me they cannot order.
>
> I know it was put back together correctly because if you've ever seen this
> particular set of shoes, they only fit one way. And the left driver's
side
> has given me no problems at all, and I was the one that did the work on it
> when I changed it all as well. It got a new drum, shoes, and springs
> only, no wheel cylinder was necessary.
>
> It's also been suggested that the rubber hose that connects to the metal
> tubing that goes to the wheel cylinder may be clogged or is collapsing and
> not letting fluid flow backwards out of the wheel cylinder when the brake
> is released. I have not changed it yet either. But I did feel of the
> hose, for whatever good that will do, and it did not feel weak and did not
> collapse under my squeezing pressure. Visibly, it looks fine.
>
> Has anybody ever had this happen, and what do you do about it?? Change
> hose?? Try to get a new adjuster from a dealer or a junkyard??
>
> Thanks for any replies.
>
Do you use the emergency brake when you park this vehicle? Possible cable
hanging up on that side.

Glenn Beasley
Chrysler tech