Stripping rear drums

[3000GT_PILOT]

My missus' clio (1998 facelift 1.4) has a sticky rear drum when the handbrake has been on, on the N/S.

the first time it happened, i just pulled away hard to release it, and it worked. but it happened again while she was at work and had to get it on a recovery truck to get it home. i wanna strip it down tomorrow and give it a clean/ grease etc. is it easy to do?

is there anything else that could cause it to stick after the handbrake has been on?

thanks for the replies.

James

 

[ajketley]

Yeh fairly easy, you have to replace the hub nuts and reset the handbrake alignment, should only take a day a max(allow for getting new parts if needed) the shoes could be stuck to the springs inside etc!

 

[3000GT_PILOT]

thanks for the reply, i just took it for a spin to release the drum but the ABS light keeps coming on - so its going into a garage today.

 

[3000GT_PILOT]

the shoes had sheared off the mountings and snapped, making it jam the drum up! both sides had done it! cost £47 for new shoes and fitting for both sides at kwik-fit

 

[ajketley]

thats good, cheap as well!