this morning, i backed out of my spot at home and stopped before
shifting to drive and experienced a slight "pop" when i let off the
brake. All was unevenful during my drive to work.
Then, i backed out of my spot at work and stopped, notcing that it
stopped quite harshly and made the popping noise again. I shift to
drive and then have to stop before I can turn, and the stop was very
abrupt, kind of like i threw out the anchor. I few more stops this
happened, and then all was back to normal.
I stopped off at my parent's house to pick up some stuff and when I went
to leave this did not happen, as I had parked along the street and had
no need to back up. So, I figured "what the hell" and backed up and
stopped a few times. Sure enough, the same thing happened while
breaking in reverse and in drive.
Before I go and open up the drums, I'd like to hear what you all have to
say suggestion wise for me. Do you think a spring might be broken?
I've got 61k on the original shoes, because apparently there's something
different in the perportioning on the 2000 model year trucks that causes
rear brakes to last much longer.
About 3 months ago, I bought new shoes and drums because I was getting a
noise in the rear only to find that once i opened them up there was a
small rock stuck inside the edge of the drum that had been wearing the
backing plate. I put them back together and went about my merry way,
and they have been fine for the past 3 months. Now, all the sudden this
happens. I have a feeling it's a spring or something, but I'm not sure
so any opinions are welcome, so that I have kind of an idea what's going
on in there before I crack the drums off.
-- - Josh Lowered 2000 Dakota CC 3.9L www.geocities.com/lenny187/dakota.html www.omg-stfu.com
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