Smoking rear wheel


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Posted by Todd Wilson on Friday, January 24, 2003 at 5:47PM :

Well had a minor mishap today on the old 74 D200. A few weeks ago I put new rear brake cylinders in the old Dana60 and a new master cylinder. All has been well for 2 weeks. Today I pulled the trailer. I drove probably 16 miles on the hiway when my buddy behind me called the cell phone and said the wheel was smoking. It was the wheel that had the cylinder go out of and it made a nasty mess. I thought I had cleaned it up fairly good. The outside of the hub was cold but the drum was hot and very hot hot compared to the other rear wheel. I thought maybe it was burning off brake fluid I didnt get cleaned up. It continued to smoke while driving and then stopped. Truck made no noise and did not act odd in anyway. Pulled it apart earlier and the bearings appear to be fine and grease around them ok. Wheel would hardly spin when jacked up and I had a heck of a time sliding the drum off. Like maybe the brakes had tightened up real bad on it.

All looks fine to me. Anything I am missing here on this new wheel cylinder? I am gonna check the inner wheel bearing on the drum.


Whats the chance it was old brake fluid burning off and maybe stuck the shoes to the drum and thats why it was hard to spin the wheel and slide the drum off?!?!


Todd




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