Suzuki Club UK

uh ohh whats wrong with her?

Right here we go

My cousin picked her up last night with tradeplates so I jumped in the passenger seat got half way and be cousin said it was feeling slow so we got it to my cousins house and seen that the drivers side rear drum was smoking really bad the blue heat resistance paint was all gone so we jacked it up took the wheel off and then got the drum off and the cylinder was seized so we tried un seizing it but it was fucked so we loosened the tensioner and going to pick it up Wednesday night with a trailer
Got to get new shoes new cylinders and maby while I'm at it give it a set of new front discs as the pads are like new

ouch!! thats not good mate, get some pics up aswel, that doesnt sound to good, hope shes okay, got me worried about mine now, i mean how did the drum come off? was it the bolts that hold the drum to the hub? must not have tightened them up properly, hope you can get her mot'd soon!

Not good but that is SJ for ya mine always does something on the way to its mot. Anyway you've come this far with it so you'll get it sorted

I will get some pics later as its at my cousins house it was tight done it up with a long bar

I'm glad it didnt do any other damage the brake drum was scratching on.the ground

Just got to get new brake shoes and brake cylinder

Also going to change the wheel studs for better ones

I need a new stud for my weel spacer this is the spacers that I have got

Ok one reason wheel nuts come off. Not properly tight. All hub and wheel nuts should be tightened in the correct order (usually opposites) to seat the drum and wheel correctly. Then torqued to correct tightness.

Running on 3 drum nuts only will have allowed the drum to move and vibrate on the 4th stud causing the others to come loose.

It is VITALLY important that ALL studs and nuts are checked for wear caused by wheel and hub vibrations. This goes for the drum stud holes and wheel stud holes too. Even after a short distance the vibrations can wear the studs and elongate the holes.

OVERTIGHTENING is just as serious! This causes tensile stress in the stud and causes them to shear!

Hope you get it all sorted, sounds like it was a pretty dramatic moment.

Just add to that. I'm not into removing wheels unless required but as you are running the bolt on spacers with a second set of nuts for the wheels i advise periodically removing the wheels to ensure the spacers are correctly torqued.

That sounds like it all went a bit wrong Don't do the brake drum nuts up with a long bar, the threads on nuts themselves strips quite easily so that's probably what happened if they were over tightened.

I would recommend buying some new nuts from Muddyzook for the drums for both sides.

Chears going to buy a new set of drum nuts

Will get some pics up later just got to cable tie my rubber extensions on again
As that was in the middle of the road with the 3 drum nuts which when somewhere but don't know where

It is home safe only damage was the drum back plate scratched on.the floor a bit of body work and the arch extension needs putting back on plus my front left arch extension I cable tied them on and some of them have snapped as well