My grandmothers 02 neon needs to have rear shoes or something. She called me and told me the right rear wheel is locked up. Im willing to bet something in the brake setup broke and is now jamming the drum. I have never done drum brakes before so I have no clue about them. Do I need special tools? Will this job on the neon take a while or is it pretty straight foward?

There is a special tool for taking the springs off and putting them back on but you don't need it. The thing that gets most people when doing drum brakes is that they take them all apart and then don't remember how to put them back together so you should take a picture with your phone or something when you take them apart, or take the other side drum off so you have something to refer to.

you can do the rear's on the DB BRUISER after the peon

its not to bad, as zach said only take one side apart. and also i think i have the tool for that. does the neon have those "horseshoe" springs? if so i have to tool, the cavaliera also had those style brakes

you actually do gotta use that special tool when putting it back together. i did my camaro's drums, & i had to use it to put the springs back. just gotta becareful, because if you point the tool in the wrong way, the spring will go flying. & it hurts when it hits you.

it's pretty simple once you get use to it. just make sure you don't loose all the small peices that you take out.

Do one side at a time. I did the brakes on Nelson's Beretta. One side was an hour and a half(without tools) the other was 20 minutes (I made him get the harbor freight set).

theres only tools that make it easyer , nothing that you "cant' do the job without .

Drum brakes? what are those?





Sounds like personal experience?

I hate it when that happens.

So, Nelson has the drum brake tools huh.....

i has them as well if you need them

yep i have them somewhere in that mess of a garage....I am off Friday if you wanna come by during the day dude