Guide: Rear drum brake overhaul

[Niall]

Good enough wee guide, but braking hard from 50/60mph isnt the best way to bed in brakes imo.

On a disc setup, id normally agree but with rear drums, they do no more than 20% of the braking so you wont get enough heat into them to damage the shoes or drums like you could with a new front disc setup.

Just FYI, the school of thought i go with for bedding in front brakes is lots of slow gentle stops and then as soon as you come to a stop, release the brake pedal. You are tying to leave a layer of the brake pad material on the disc. When you see sort of an imprint of a pad on a disc, this is where someone has got them red hot then stayed on the brakes after stopping. This leads to having disgusting feeling brakes!