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After a successful second master cylinder replacement, I went back out a couple of weeks later to adjust the brake shoes and found that both rear wheel cylinders were blown. Brake fluid all over the place in the rear. I ordered new wheel cylinders for the front (Amazon link<\/a>) and rear (Amazon link<\/a>), figuring the fronts would blow after replacing the rears – pressure finding the next weakest point in the pipeline.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once I had the parts in hand, while having my morning coffee at the start of installation day, I figured I may as well replace the shoes and hardware while I was in there. Shopping around online, I found that O’Reilly had the parts in stock. Went and picked everything up and was ready to go.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I started at the passenger rear, just like when bleeding the brakes. I was worried about the axle nut, a 32mm castle nut. I didn’t have that big of a socket, so I picked on of those up as well. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Everything came apart without issue and was surprisingly easy. I was expecting a more complicated setup, but not so much.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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That picture was taken after blowing half a can of Brake Kleen and wiping everything down. The shoes were about half-life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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One of the washers on the back side crumbled. Replaced it with the closest I could find laying around in my somewhat organized hardware pile.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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New shoes and old shoes side by side. The old hand cleaner can is a good brake fluid catcher. It’s also a good oil pan for changing the lawn mower oil.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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New parts waiting to go.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As I was reassembling, there were some snags, like one of the pre-drilled holes in the shoe not being big enough for the pin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I also had to mix and match some of the old and new parts. The new springs were significantly taller than the old springs. I couldn’t get them compressed far enough, so reused the old springs. It was still a very tight fit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I put the drum back on, took it off, adjusted the shoes, repeated that process ten times or so, getting a nice, snug fit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Got that wheel back together, but when I went around to do the passenger side rear wheel, the axle nut was not budging. I decided to go ahead and bleed that rear passenger side, but my manual brake bleeder vacuum gun promptly blew out and started squirting brake fluid in my face. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I was able to finish bleeding it with minimal brake fluid ingested.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

AutoZone was the only place in town that had one of those manual brake bleeder vacuum guns in stock, so I headed over there. Saw this sweet 1964 Galaxie 500 in the parking lot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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