Dodge Brake Shoes

Brakes are vehicle’s most important part. They probably have the toughest job of stopping your vehicle which can travel at high speeds. Since the brakes are responsible for every vehicle owner’s safety and other’s safety, brakes should be visually checked every time the vehicle’s wheels are taken off for tire rotation or other services.

  

One of the parts of the Dodge brakes that require to be checked is the Dodge brake shoes. This is also the common service that is required for drum brakes. There are some drum brakes that provide an inspection hole at the back side of it where you can see how much material is left on the shoe. Like the disk pads, Dodge brake shoes consist of a steel shoe with the friction material or lining riveted or bonded to it. Also like disk pads, the lining eventually wears out and must be replaced. If then the linings are allowed to wear through to the bare metal shoe, they will cause severe damage to the brake drum.

 

 

 

Dodge brake shoe should be replaced when the friction material has worn down to within 1/32 inch of the rivets. If the friction materials are bonded to the backing plate, meaning no rivets, then the Dodge brake shoes should be replaced when they have only 1/16 inch of material left.

 

Just as in disk brakes, deep scores sometimes get worn into the brake drums. If then a worn out Dodge brake shoe is used for too long, the rivets that hold the friction material to the backing can wear grooves into the drum. Such badly scored drum can sometimes be repaired by refinishing. Where the disk brakes have a minimum allowable thickness, drum brakes have a maximum allowable diameter.