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Sue, Len and Andy are some of the best instructors on the internet! Thanks!

I love this lady she makes theses videos 100x better lol

Omg when she was doing mistakes I was cringing so hard. But it's a good lesson to teach people so they do it right.

@SHINdanny

3 жыл бұрын

Oh man! Man! Come on man!

@emmettturner9452

Жыл бұрын

I didn’t. Anyone who has seen her other videos knows Sue is the brake expert and knows better. She pretended to screw up for our entertainment and education. :)

That was awesome! Enjoyed all the mess ups and screw ups like the brake line zip tied to the shock! 😁👍🏻

@1AAuto

3 жыл бұрын

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I applied the e-brake and pumped the brakes with the drum off, and now I can't fit the drum back on anymore. What do?

I wanna celebrate New Years with this lady.

@OBZRV82

3 жыл бұрын

🤣

@blass5506

3 жыл бұрын

Me tooo

Thank god for this video...my wife's cars drum brakes are starting to wear down and I told her I could replace them and said no wait until they start squeaking I'm like no babe that's dangerous....not only that but I like gaining experience from doing something like this and saving money My wife is gonna learn sooner or later bad brakes dont last long at all

@Brandon-uy1uv

3 жыл бұрын

Drum breaks almost never come with the metal tabs that squeak. They do sometimes squeak when the drums surface is really damaged like the ones in the video but driving like that is dangerous

@kaadauwgg

3 жыл бұрын

For disc brakes only. Once I hear the warning whistle, as I call it. I start saving money up for the brakes. Depending on how much you drive, or brake,,should be about a month. 2 Easy. But not guaranteed. Gather up the money. And if I have the money already, I go ahead and buy the brakes and throw them in the trunk. I personally will let the warning whistle go for a while. But as soon as the brakes grab hard, within the next seven or or eight days, I replace my brakes.

That vehicle looks like it came in from 'Jersey!! Lol 😆

😂😂I was putting them factory clips back on the drums for work. Noted✍🏾

Thank you for going over proper E-brake adjustments. Nobody else has. Not even Chris Fix or the other big names. I'll be sure to double check that with mine.

Great vid. I'd love working with her in a shop. She sounds fun.

Great video for newbees I fondly remember doing many drum brakes over the years. And yes safety first. Thanks The old school guy.

A minute in an I already love this woman! My mother taught me as a kid how to do brakes, oil and fluids. She also taught me a lot of home remedies and being good with my hands. I’m thankful for that because it lead me to where I am today. I love working with my hands and tinkering. I’m here today because I haven’t touched drum brakes in over 20 years. Need a refresher. All of my vehicles have been disk. Super easy. I’ve always found these to be slightly more daunting. FWIW, anytime I go to Home Improvement or Auto shops, I’ll always try to talk to the woman that is working. 9/10 they’re on their A game. They know where everything is and I find them to be more helpful and knowledgeable than the men. Always pleasant and patient. Shout out to all of you bad ass women! 💪🏼💪🏼💪🏼

Thank You, I was messing up with Cylinder popping out and leaking every time. This video helps a lot.

Excellent Teacher!! Awesome

Love the energy you put out in the videos, thank you :D

so great to see a Lady doing this, tried hard to teach both my kids {girl & boy} all bout how to fix your car, given my daily driver is a '64 Merc so easy to teach them

Great brake video, thanks for sharing this.

I've never had to adjust a brake cable doing that job unless the brake cable was too loose. And to adjust the brake cables on a system like that,you put on the new brakes, you close the adjustment so that the brake drum slides on uncomfortably but not too tight. Take the vehicle to where you got a lot of room and drive backwards up to about 10 or 15 miles per hour and then slam on the brakes. That will automatically adjust the shoes inside of the brake drum. Caution. Skilled drivers only

Thank You for the great tips! The voice of Experience!

I love the way she explains!!!!

I love this! Thank you for your education.

Great video and certainly entertaining! Appreciate the do's and don'ts. Thanks!

I had to loosen my hand brake completely. Was getting no where until I saw this. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. 👍

So a question I was planning on replacing my drum brake on the Corolla 2011. Do I need to adjust the emergency line after doing drum brake?

Great demo Sue! Funny too!

Great video!! 👍🏽Enjoyed!!

Wow great video, I went to a community college for Automotive, you would be a fantastic teacher!

Now this is how a good video is made. I love the disclaimer paragraph right at the start. No BS or theatrics, just show 'em how it's done. Nice!

Great presentation!!!

should re-title this to 'mistakes I made when doing my brakes'.... can't wait to see how many I made, lol

@1AAuto

2 жыл бұрын

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Nice video of what not to do. Still unsure if I want to do the rear brake drums for my 2009 Honda Fit. Not a rusted mess like this car ! All of it’s miles in the South !

@1AAuto

3 жыл бұрын

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I salute you for a very detailed info and how to. So crystal clear on explanations. Kudos to you. 👍😍

@1AAuto

Жыл бұрын

+Greg Santos Thanks for the feedback!

Great video, I enjoyed the various scenarios presented.

Love these common mistakes videos

Great video! 👍

Great video thank u 👍

Great video 💯💪

Really good video; covered some finer points ; thanks !!!!!!

Thank you

I was so happy to see another film with this fairy lady-mechanic. The film broaden my knowledge on many details of drum brakes. Thank you so much!

Im doing my rear brakes Feb 24, 24 Saturday in my 2011 silverado LT 1500 5.3liter. I have never done it before. Im not a mechanic. So im using your video to help me. Thank u.

@1AAuto

5 ай бұрын

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Love the video!

Thank you so much for this video سپاسگزارم

@1AAuto

2 жыл бұрын

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One subtle point I’ve messed up in the past is getting the shoes on the correct front or rear orientation. Was hoping to see that here. Also I don’t know how you New England folks can stand working on so many corroded parts all the time. 😨

@jamesworsham2312

Жыл бұрын

Always remember if short shoe in the front long shoe to the rear. Unless both shoes are the same length on the breaking pad itself. Back in the day they called it a short shoe and a long shoe short shoe to the front long shoe to the rear

Loved this, it's like watching Larry The Cable Guy pretend to be ASE certified lol

Great video , thanks:

I have no garage. If i block or chalk my front 2 tires and put my rear axle on jack stands, is it safe to put truck in neautral to test the drag on the brake shoes and drum ?

Nice job

Thank you for these tips, that drum looked like it was taken off a wagon it was so old. :)

enjoyed this video

Very informative 👏🏼

@1AAuto

3 жыл бұрын

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Yo she is on🔥

She was entertaining a very knowledgeable. Would love to see her on more vids.

Love that East Coast vibe! Checking the other side was called the Polish Blueprint.... It might be right LOL! Loved the vid... !!!

Just put new wheel cylinder brake pads drum on driver side. The old one had a yellow plastic spacer in between the drum and hub.. Turned the wheel bearing and drum get a grinding sound 90% sure it's not the shoes. Pretty sure it's the backing plate. Do I just put a new spacer or is there a way I can figure out where the grinding is on the backing plate and drum? Do you have a video showing this process??

Thanks needed that part about emergency brake.

Awesome thanks very much 🙂

@1AAuto

3 ай бұрын

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But nit all cars have use brake fluide for their Parking brakes , I guess , they just use the Small pedal to activate the Parking brakes ,is that right ? Just like the Acadia 2007 !

Good video

Great job , funny also! 🙂

I ruined a brand new wheel cylinder because I was trying to bleed the brakes with the drum on lol thanks for the info I didn’t know what I did wrong I replaced my wheel bearing and the last thing I have left is to do the rear drum brakes and I was having difficulty bleeding them. You helped a lot sometimes the simple things help people so much!

@maleekwilliams72

5 ай бұрын

With the drum off I’m sorry

After installing a new drum and clips one of the clips came off inside the drum. Assuming it was put on correct what would be another reason for it to pop off???

I'm not sure if it's going to stop. I never saw her bleed that brake, which is a must after replacing that line.

That lady is awesome, doing my drums on a 67 cadillac deville, the vice grips made me say ouch!!!! Good times!!!

133k miles and never had brakes done???? I'm surprised there is any brake lining even left on those shoes and I'm surprised she didn't have to cut the drum off, or pull the axle shaft out to get the drum off.

My gramps always called that a flare nut wrench 5:59. Thanks for the great video.

Sue and Andy are cool!

I just removed both my rear brake drums for the first time ever! My secret. I used my $200 rubber sledge hammer from "Mac's Hardware." It is a 12 lb. Deadblow hammer that is 36" long. The drum had rust welded itself to the shaft that centers your wheel on the hub. 5 good whacks all over and it came right off!

Awesome 😎

Well done. Always learn heaps and refresh old learning by watching these vids. You're a great tech;-)

My truck has the stock push nuts on the drums at around 130K, but the drums look great and I was almost tempted to not even replace the pads. But I'm in Texas, have owned the truck since 20K, and don't brake aggressively. The slave cylinders both weep around the seals though, so I'm going to have to order them and go back in.

Tubing wrench... so same thing as flare nut wrench?

She's awesome! 👌🏾💯

I love this video, reverse psychology works really well.

I was about to scream to my phone when she didn't have safety glasses on! Great video.

Bought a 2007 Saturn ion 2. Both front tires would skid when hard braking. Both rear wheel cylinders were bad. Replaced front rotors and calipers and pads. Then rear shoes and cylinders. Now my driver rear locks up and skids on hard braking. What did I do wrong?😢

I love this smart lady

2 weeks ago the mechanic replaced my rear brake shoes. Now my two rear brake cylinders are leaking fluid on the drum shoes and have ruined them. What do you suppose they did that could have caused that?

Just like watching a movie fun and scary 😧 lol good video 👍

I really need help with a nissan 2013. sv with I took it to the shop to check brakes because they were low. Then the mechanic said it need to replace all nrakes in order to give me guarantee of the job. I let him to replace them and the car still the same. So, i took it to Midas they are specialists in brake. and their disgnostic is the master cilinder and they were about to charge me 900 dlls . It is a lot of monet so i decide to do it myself, I replace the master sylinder but i have the same problem. What you can tell me to fix my problem? im desperate. This is my daughters car and i wanted to return ir to her but im frustrated with mechanics that tehy only want to rake advant of ppl.Please help me

@ohnoao9847

3 жыл бұрын

#1 Never go to Midas, it's always $900 and honestly I'd avoid all major corporate chain places to look at it. #2 If you've already paid for repairs they should guarantee their work till it's right. Have you told them? Or called a corporate office maybe? #3 What happens when you pump the pedal does it get harder to press or stay low? #4 Have you tried an online forum for your specific model vehicle? #5 You could buy an online Haynes manual as a guide

Now that I've had three heart attacks it's a good video.

@1AAuto

3 жыл бұрын

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By the way... Happy Women's Month!!!! This woman deserves every salute she's having.

Mention/explanation of radiusing (adjusting arc) of shoes to match (or slightly smaller than the drums can prevent some ugly problems “down the road”.

Nice video 😮😮😅😅😊😊😊

She's a great actress 👍🏾 Great Work!

That drum looks amazing compared to my brothers: no pad material and part the brake drum separated hanging like a wedding band around the shoes😅😅😅

Glad to see this. I am sure I would be the one to blow up a wheel cylinder. I gotta do drum brakes on an old Toyota Corolla with over 250k mi. I am hoping i don't make any mistakes.

you are one impressive lady. thanks for your videos

Awesome format-doing all the gung ho mistakes upfront!!! This is advanced level and not for dummies!🤣 I just hope no gullible newbie would fall into the trap! Lol! Love it tho!👍🏽😄

@1AAuto

3 жыл бұрын

+Spysweeper Thanks for the feedback!

She must be Wonder Woman the way she pulled that old rusty drum off with bare hands. It took me 2 days of pounding with a hammer and a whole can of PB blaster.......lol

the tip with heat was gold!

Hahahha "i forgot to take pictures" worry not Mam. We got you cover. 😊

Welp I know have anxiety attacks thank you……. X3 awesome video.

What is usually the cause for the brake shoes to get stuck when you disengage the emergency brake?

The dead pan jokes made me watch this until the end when I had no reason to, love your filming style guys!

She’s always fun to watch

I’m honestly amazed she was able to get all that rusty crap out so easily.

@1AAuto

3 жыл бұрын

+Anonymous Thanks for the feedback!

@Pure_KodiakWILD_Power

3 жыл бұрын

She's a warrior 💪

I hate to say this but they do still make rivited brake shoes. All the major brands still do. Not sure where she gets her info from.