Wednesday, March 26, 2008
Brake Job
Sunday morning both the Pontiac and Joyce's van were very low on gas, so we decided to take my van to church. Something felt funny with the brakes as we went out of the garage, and at the first stop sign when I hit the brakes it felt like we rolled over a board. I suspected that the pad had come off one of the rear brake shoes, based on this happening to other people on my favorite user group. So, I immediately turned around and we went back to the house and swapped over to one of the other cars.
The new brake shoes I ordered arrived on Wednesday, the day I returned from a two-day business trip to Atlanta. I went ahead and pulled the rear brake drum and sure enough, the pad was at the bottom of the drum. This picture shows the shoe with the pad lying on the ground.
The rear brakes on the '93 VW Eurovan don't really do anything. I know because those are the original brake pads, have 181,000 miles on them, and are barely worn. However, several people on 93 Eurovan user group on Yahoo have reported that after 14 or years or so the pad fell off their shoe, and at least one person had the pad get caught in such a way that the rear tire locked up while he was driving. So, I was lucky this happened in only one block from home at a very low speed, and that I was able to continue driving.
The shoes were relatively easy to replace, though the right rear brakes dragged a bit for the first 30 miles or so, but whatever was dragging seems to have worn off and all is well now. Here is a picture with the new shoes.
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The new brake shoes I ordered arrived on Wednesday, the day I returned from a two-day business trip to Atlanta. I went ahead and pulled the rear brake drum and sure enough, the pad was at the bottom of the drum. This picture shows the shoe with the pad lying on the ground.
The rear brakes on the '93 VW Eurovan don't really do anything. I know because those are the original brake pads, have 181,000 miles on them, and are barely worn. However, several people on 93 Eurovan user group on Yahoo have reported that after 14 or years or so the pad fell off their shoe, and at least one person had the pad get caught in such a way that the rear tire locked up while he was driving. So, I was lucky this happened in only one block from home at a very low speed, and that I was able to continue driving.
The shoes were relatively easy to replace, though the right rear brakes dragged a bit for the first 30 miles or so, but whatever was dragging seems to have worn off and all is well now. Here is a picture with the new shoes.
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