<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: VintageMusclecar</div><div class="ubbcode-body">THANK YOU STEVE!!! I've been looking for that exact info and haven't been able to find it! Mine's a `95 2500 series gas, and that's exactly what mine's done--wears out the front brakes and barely uses the rears.
Since I'm not registered on that forum, I can't get the .pdf to open. Is that forum a quick register site or do I have to wait for admin approval? Is there any way you could send me the .pdf file?
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It's a great website. You can register pretty quick there without grief. I am NJsteve there, too.
If we could figure out a way to post PDF's it would be much easier here... I printed it, scanned it and now am posting it for your reading pleasure. [img]<<GRAEMLIN_URL>>/grin.gif[/img]
The article was from 2001 so GM knew about this when the trucks were still new and under warranty. You can probably ignore the brake shoe set part # portion of the update as any modern set of rear shoes cross reference to that part number now (15 years later).
This TSB was the subject of numerous lawsuits against GM, who refused to acknowledge that a defect existed and only repaired the problem if the customer complained of the "truck pulling to one side under heavy braking." If those magic words weren't used, the dealers refused to replace the metering valve under the TSB. NHTSA tried to get them to admit to the problem and issue a voluntary recall (much like the rusty brake line issue) but GM fought them all the way. And the Bankruptcy and reorg meant that they never had to do anything about he problem after the bailout in 2009.
When I did the metering valve replacement I also replaced all the rear brake parts via rockauto.com. Got a great price on the 50-lb. brake drums and all the assorted hardware. Probably didn't need to replace the drums since they were never used in all those years but I had already ordered them and it would have cost me way too much to ship them back. Those drums can be a @%#%$ to remove - they tend to freeze to the axle hub. When we got my drums off we noticed that the shoes had never fully applied in almost 20 years. They were glazed with age and still at full thickness. I replaced the wheel cylinders, springs and shoes just in case they were frozen up from sitting so long. BTW, the wheel cylinder bolts and bleeder screws are real fun to get to with the heavy duty leaf springs so close to the backing plates.
BTW you could just swap that 10" rear with the full floating axles and 13"x3-1/2" brakes from the Suburban into your Chevelle and it should take the torque quite nicely.
