I had to use a mirror to show the bleed nipple on the backplate. As usual it's small and hard to access. It was covered with a red plastic top hat cover. It's 5/16 AF and really needs an open ender. A ring spanner works but leaves little space for the bleed tube.
Here's the offside drum. Something of a puzzle with eight fasteners.
In order to investigate I removed them all!!
The large slotted setscrews seem to be there only to locate the drum, or maybe just to fill the holes. They are short, and come out easily, but do nothing. At the rear they are all centre punched three times, as if to retain them in the hub. But the drum can be rotated and removed easier with these four screws taken out.
The real fasteners are the bolts - 11mm socket takes care of them.
And here's the drum removed - offside.
The leading shoe is hardly worn, and it appears that the rear shoe does most of the work. I checked the wheel cylinder and it's free and not leaking, so all appears well. I cleaned up the inside, and the inside of the drum. There are some numbers on the shoes.
8231595 on the offside. Plus 90R/01074/805 8238357. One other number is too indistinct to read.
On the nearside the numbers are 8238357, then 90R/019.......indistinct, then 8231595.
More to follow.......>>>>>
