The emergency brake assembly is typically attached to only one side of the brake shoe. Sometimes the front shoe, or sometimes the rear shoe, depending on the particular car.

Here’s How To Change Drum Brake Shoes, Springs, and Wheel Cylinder To repeat, this is how the job is done on a 2006 front-drive Saturn Vue without ABS, which means it’s a leading/trailing shoe ...

Of all the advanced systems operating within modern automobiles, brakes are by far the most important. Know what you're looking for to stay safe.

Drum brakes have mostly been replaced by disc brakes on most modern vehicles. So when did this shift happen, and what's the advantage of disc brakes?

A zinc-coated brake rotor has a thin rust-protection barrier. Paying the extra cost for zinc coating can delay the need for a ...

A prosecutor apparently turned a brake shoe into a "memento" following the conviction of a truck driver who argued that a brake malfunction caused a deadly 2019 collision in Colorado.

Rather than use the crusty-rusty stock disc-brake calipers, we bought new calipers (part Nos. 90040 left; 90039 right) from AutoZone. To improve our Chevelle's braking performance, we opted to ...

If you’re doing some DIY driveway brake service on anything over 3 or 4 years of age that involves a drum/rotor system with hidden park-brake shoes, do yourself a favour and have a shoe set and ...

Drum brakes are essentially extinct on new cars today—save for a few budget-minded holdouts like the Ford Focus 1.0-liter.But for nearly a century, they were the standard system of choice on ...