Thread: rear drum brakes on mid eighties S10 pickup---Help I'm Stuck

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This may be the dumb question of the day. When I bought the S10 rearend for my roadster pickup, it came without any brakes, from the backing plate out. This is supposedly an S10 2-wheel drive rearend. I have purchased new shoes, new wheel cylinders,spring kits, and adjuster kits to install, but none of the auto supply houses have a picture or diagram showing this stuff assembled. I bought a Haynes manual, but it is to generic to be much use. I have 3 main questions----#1 what do the ends of the parking brake cables hook to--is it a seperate lever? the only lever I have is the one for the auto adjusters, and it doesn't appear to hook to that.
#2---Does the s10 have a rectangular spring on one end of the bar which sets just above the axle and spans between the front and rear shoe, to keep it from rattling?
#3---if anybody out there has a mid eighties s10 pickup with the brake drums off, you would earn my undying gratitude if you ran out to the garage, took a picture, and posted it.
---Like I said, this may be the dumb question of the day, but I am amazed at how little information seems to be available at the auto parts dealers.

i can get plenty of pic's let me know if you still need them my uncle (tom) thats bout all he has going is s10's he just put some brakes on his 84 and its still in the air so i can get some pic's...i put some brakes on my brothers 84.........they are a pain...and they slip off of the wheel cylinders alot causing it to mess the wheel cylinders up let me know if you still need pics

Denny---As usual, you are a Prince among men. Thank You---I am going to tackle the job this coming weekend.
Brian

I just picked up all of the missing brake parts at the G.M. dealers---If things go alright I will install everything this weekend. I think I have all the missing bits and peices now---will post a picture when all is installed.

here are some pic's.......yeah my uncle tom found away to keep them from sliping off......here are some pictures of some he just got done puting on.

this is the left top side where the ebrake piece is behind the shoe........these pics were tooken from the passenger side.

how do i put 2 pics in 1 post?

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