1. Install the large fulcrum pin into the front shoe. You will have to pound it in with a hammer to get it seated all the way past the teeth. The pins that came with my new set of brake shoes were a tad too large and took more pounding than they should have needed
2. Install the parking brake lever. This goes on the fulcrum pin from the previous step. Be sure to put some high-temperature grease on the pin. Then use a new c-washer to keep it on.
3. Install the adjuster set and return spring. If you want to, you can add some high-temperature grease on the two prong ends of the adjuster set before connecting them with the brake shoes
4. Add high-temperature grease to metal-on-metal contact points.put the grease.
5. Put the shoe assembly over the hub. Going back into the housing, just the opposite of how you originally removed it.
6. Install the adjuster lever. The new brakes come with a pin that goes with the adjuster lever. If you have trouble keeping it all together, then it may be easier for you to install the adjuster lever later
7. Install the hold-down springs, cups, and pins. This will help keep everything in place while you install the rest of the parts. Use needle nose pliers to install these just the opposite of how you removed the old ones – push it in and then twist until the pin flanges rest in the cup grooves.
8. Install the parking brake cable. Remember; push the parking brake lever toward the hub to give enough slack so that the cable can reach it.
9. Install the anchor spring. Perhaps you can install it directly, but I couldn’t stretch the spring far enough to reach. Installing the anchor spring. Pull out bottom of shoes, install spring, pry spring and shoes back in place.
10. Install the adjuster lever spring. Pliers work fine for this.
11. Install the drum and wheel.
12. Adjust the newly installed brake.
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