Adjusting Rear Brakes on 9400I

Hey Heavy, what do you know about adjusting rear brakes on the 9400I?

my rear axle pads are wearing wacky... the bottom pads are wearing way quicker than the tops, is this normal?
I don't think so, and they're wearing more on one end than the other, in other words not wearing evenly on the bottoms.

I'm gonna take a look around on here, but just got this note from you and figered I'd ask you right off.

 

the wear is more on the trailing edge or to the rear of the lower shoe.

how much would a job like this cost at a shop?

I don't have the gear to this type of heavy work.

 

oh yeah, I see that, maybe thats what I'm seeing on mine...
I'll have to take another look, but it's pouring right now and getting dark, did you wax your car again? hahha

I'm also seeing heat checks on the drum surface, but I read somewhere thats normal, and they come and go...

I can't find anything online about doing a brake job on this truck.
got any links?

is there a way to adjust them without taking off the wheel?
or they have slack adjuster right, and they should be automatic...

 

yeah, I'm sure. I was a company driver, how many company drivers do you know who check their brakes daily?

I've also worked on cars since I was 11. went to school for auto repair, and never had to bring any of my vehicles to a shop, except for tires and alignments, and I bought a tire changer last year and change my own tires now as well, car tires anyway.
haven't had the pleasure of changing a truck tire yet, and I'm not looking forward to that either, but I ain't afraid of getting my hands dirty, and at some point, I'm gonna get the gear to do that as well.


I've owned my own truck for a total of, let see about 4 months now.
when I bought it, the brakes were pristine, brand spankin new.

I check a lot of things daily, but not the brake shoes, and I've never been a big truck mechanic, so no I don't know exactly how they work.

but so far I've changed my water pump, the starter, replaced the batteries, fixed a few broken clamps, found and repaired a leaky bunk...

can't think of what else right now, does this make me a know it all...
NO, but I'm learning.
and with some constructive help from guys like HeavyD and a few others I've had the pleasure of speaking to on this forum, I've been able to keep some of my hard earned money and keep my truck running.

90% of the time I've spoken with anyone in some shop I've been given the run around and fed a heapin helpin of ########, so I don't trust a lot of them.

but I do believe you are actually trying to give me some constructive criticism and not just breaking my balls, and I see you've been on this forum a long time, and helped out quite a few folks, so I will try and find out more about how the brakes work on my rig, and make sure they are in excellent running order.

if I had one of them big assed bottle jacks, a 200 psi compressor and a 3/4 inch drive air gun, I'd probably have them wheels off and lookin at them brakes right now, to find out just how they do work, and fix em.

but I don't so, at some point I'll be at the mercy of some shop, hopefully local and not on the road, and before I hit anything or worse.

but I don't believe there's anything that wrong with my brakes right now, they just seemed to be wearing in a strange way, and I was trying to inquire what might be making them do that.

I may have asked a stupid question with the slack adjusters bit up there in my last post, but I've been taught, the only stupid question is the one you didn't ask...

so with that, canuck in da truck, I thank you, and anxiously await your next post.

 

much appreciated Canuck, thanks.

And HeavyD, so apparently what I was seeing as an uneven wear pattern developing, is the taper of the shoe itself.
and the heat checks I was seeing the other day are almost gone.

I was doing a lot of heavy loads last week and the week before, so I guess I'll be using the trolly brake a lot more when under a heavy load for sure.

appreciate all your input bro