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Chaseweston
03-16-2013, 07:03 PM
Today I stepped on my driver side rear tire to clean my roof and heard a weird noise in the hub. Seeing as how I'm driving a couple hundred interstate miles tomorrow evening I pulled off the wheel to inspect the hub and brakes. When I pulled off the outer drum case thing these two pieces fell out!! There's also a skinny steel cable attached to a piece of metal with a spring on the inside that is just hanging around in there. Looking at diagrams I'm pretty sure the cable has something to do with the adjuster but I can't figure out what the pieces that fell out are for. The long piece appears to have been floating in the drum for a long time as its ground down in several directions and then dust stained on some ground flat points.


My question is: What are these pieces and are they paramount for safety and proper function of rear brakes?
Chaseweston
03-16-2013, 07:04 PM
Here's the pic I forgot to add
Chaseweston
03-16-2013, 08:02 PM
Bump. No one knows? ??
oderdene
03-16-2013, 08:20 PM
should be like this,

http://www.cherokeeforum.com/attachments/f2/143466d1347472526t-rear-drum-headache-rear-brakes-photo.jpg

looks like hand brake lever and spring, located just below cylinder, long flat one
Chaseweston
03-16-2013, 08:23 PM
should be like this,

http://www.cherokeeforum.com/attachments/f2/143466d1347472526t-rear-drum-headache-rear-brakes-photo.jpg

looks like hand brake lever and spring, located just below cylinder, long flat one

Sweet thanks. That's a great pic. I see where it goes now.
cantab27
03-16-2013, 08:25 PM
check the other side as well mate...
4.3LXJ
03-16-2013, 09:02 PM
Parking brake fulcrum. Might have the parking brake cable loose now or the lever might be loose too. Those should be secured
oderdene
03-16-2013, 09:42 PM
If emergency brake cable retaining clip lost, make one using washer :D

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_51ciAr6dNJM/TIRPe2wQYGI/AAAAAAAABW0/qIUMTgUXI50/s1600/IMG_5485.JPG
Chaseweston
03-16-2013, 10:36 PM
It's just for the parking brake though? Regular brakes will be ok for the trip?

And I would have looked at the other side but I had to be at work and didn't have time to pull it apart.
4.3LXJ
03-17-2013, 10:08 AM
Those pieces are just the parking brake. But it would help if you took a current pic of it. We could tell you in an instant if everything else looks OK