Drum brakes, shown in Figure 14-5, are the oldest type of brakes still on the road. Their main advantage is that they require less hydraulic pressure to stop your vehicle because the brake shoes tend ...

Q: In the process of performing a smog check on my rear-wheel drive 2000 Mitsubishi Montero Sport, the technician pointed out that the rear drum brakes were not functioning properly. My mechanic ...

We talked about the wide world of disc brakes in our previous look at brake systems. Now let’s jump into the dark arts of drum brakes. Because there are generally more moving parts with a drum brake ...

There is a reason that every manufacturer eventually dropped the drum brake design. When cars had 100 horsepower drum brakes ...

Autoblog may receive a share from purchases made via links on this page. Pricing and availability are subject to change. The brakes on your car are one thing you don’t want to put off fixing. Luckily, ...

These instructions for adjusting your parking brake work only if you have drum brakes on your rear wheels. If you have a manual transmission, you may have a transmission-type parking brake, which ...

A drum brake, as the name suggests, is a type of braking device that generates stopping power by pushing a friction material into contact with a rotating drum. Unlike a disc brake assembly, which ...

Ken-Tool has announced three new tools to make the task of adjusting drum air brake linkage to remove dangerous slack on trucks and trailers an easier task. Dec. 30, 2015 2 min read Ken-Tool has ...