Pulls to the left on hard braking

[teknalee]

any ideas?

 

[66horse]

put disks on.

 

[DPM77]

check your pads/shoes, if you still have lining, it may be a line or a cylinder. Look at the one that is not grabbing, its not functioning at the same rate. Sometimes, if I leave them too long, the pad can get cocked, and drag, but you would have grinding.<br><br>All it really means is you need a brake job.<br><br>maintainance, maintenance, maintenance......goes on forever. <br><br>Dan

 

[teknalee]

[quote author=66horse link=board=5;threadid=9544;start=0#68387 date=1033019693]<br>put disks on.<br>[/quote]<br><br>help me find a job ;D

 

[DPM77]

might I suggest a brake shop, you could be a tech ;D

 

[teknalee]

ooo good one! lol

 

[Allen_69]

If it's still drums, I'd check my brake cylinders. Once can be leaking and allowing brake fluid to get on the pads. Tear apart the oposite side that it's pulling to, that will be the bad side. Other things to check are radius arm bushings, and track bar. Also can be a blockage in the brake line.

 

[77bronko]

Brakes or a bushing or loose bearing or other loose steering component. If your brakes look good try bleeding them first. Oh, you have drums? get rid of them.

 

[chuck]

If it pulles to the left something needs fixing in the right side.

 

[74bronc]

Some might not know this but the EB didn't come stock with self-adjusters on the front drum brakes. This means that they have to be manually adjusted. When my bronco starts to change lanes when I hit the brakes, it's time to adjust the front brakes. Kind of a PITA and some of the EB shops sell the self adjuster kits, but I never did that because I wanted to save the money for discs, which I am doing next week. Pull it apart and have a look-see and then put it back together and make sure they are adjusted evenly from side to side. Should be good to go.

 

[JMurray]

I`ve got a 70 with the origional d30 & it has self adjusters ?:?<br>Jerry

 

[74bronc]

[quote author=JMurray link=board=5;threadid=9544;start=0#68461 date=1033060168]<br>I`ve got a 70 with the origional d30 & it has self adjusters ?:?<br>Jerry<br>[/quote]<br><br>maybe they put them on some and not on others. The star adjuster is there on mine but no cable and bracket to do the adjusting. I was told by a dude at Wild Horses some years ago that they didn't put them on stock. My 74 doesn't have them and 2 other 73's that I did the front brakes on didn't have them. The rear does have them. Weird. All of the ones I have worked on have had the D44 front though.

 

[justinsane]

Kinda strange. My 75 has self adjusters on the front. I've done lots of brake jobs, and I haven't seen drums without self adjusters since a 1964 I worked on.

 

[mark74ranger]

My 74 has self adjusters too.

 

[72Sport]

If you end up replacing the brake shoes buy new shoes and lining. Bendix makes them. I bought new ones a few months ago to stop mine from pulling after everthing else failed.<br><br>Bronco shoes fit lots of other vehicles. Rebuilders have a habit of mixing various manufactures of the same type. They are not all identical. One odd shoe on the front and it will pull.

 

[74bronc]

[quote author=mark74ranger link=board=5;threadid=9544;start=0#68497 date=1033067980]<br>My 74 has self adjusters too.<br>[/quote]<br><br>Maybe I got some bad info from Wild Horses then. My 74 D44 has the adjusters but no cables and brackets to do the self adjusting and I have seen two other EB D44's that are the same way. Weird! :

 

[77BroncoWag]

thought I remembered a brake guy telling me my radius arms bushings were bad and my brakes were perfect replaced the bushings and 8) no more wild rides under hard stops.