Adjusting and Inspecting the Brakes on my 1986 GMC Sierra

all right folks we're back working on the truck what you doing donny yo if y'all like the channel give us a thumbs up what the hell they won't give a thumbs up or a subscribe look at this 57 percent of y'all are non-subscribed look at that he's already figured out how to do the analytics on his phone people so he's he knows what the hell y'all are up to okay so please subscribe to the channel it make it a hell of a lot easier for me damn what are we doing today donnie hey we're going to do breaks but guess what look at this we got the right tool first time in history donnie has the right tool now how did that happen you brought it [Laughter] so what is this this thing that you're that we're looking at here this is a brake bleeder i've owned it for years but i don't know what it's for well you stick out on the uh the little titties down there that said bleed the brakes and then you pump it and just don't let it go back into that machine you do that it machine up and i've done that many times i had a bunch of these but i hadn't thrown them away so we're basically why are we doing that with the brakes well we got a soft pedal the pedal is soft and nobody's been able to fix it yet and they keep telling us now how many times donnie were you told oh i got to bleed them black brakes a little bit more a bunch yep and adjust them yeah they don't adjust them about 50 times if it don't work the first time you adjust them try something else people the first so we've had two people working on it the first guy replaced a whole bunch of the brake stuff so supposedly all the pads wheel cylinders all that crap back hose front hose i did one of the front hoses and you never never did get it yeah donnie did a video then never did get it 100 the um the brakes they work but they barely work it's like you're just barely barely grabbing it at the last second it ain't it ain't safe so uh apparently there is a problem with the brac the back uh brakes or something so whatever but it must be the front brakes too or didn't stop better but the the guy the first guy even replaced the proportioning valve so they get so this is how this stuff's going guys i drive it over there the brakes are fine guy replaces the hose man i'm having trouble getting them back brakes to lead to bleed uh i think the proportioning valves messed up man that's all i remember i mean that's the only thing else i can think now how often does the damn proportion and valve go bad i ain't never changed yeah and it's and it's it's uh it was driving fine when i drove it over there the brakes were fine so you know just another thing okay man well i guess if you've got to buy a proportion of valve go ahead so it has a brand new proportion of vibe on it but who knows if it's hooked up right so maybe we can compare that to the other truck yeah we're scared that he got the lines backwards like if you take the front line and put it where the back line goes in the back line where the front line goes you're going to have 80 percent on the of your pedal on the front brakes which ain't how it's supposed to be so who knows it's something right so we're going to see if they'll bleed and if it looks like everything's been replaced and what the deal is so we'll so what's first donny what we need to do first i'd like this back passenger side tire all right so we're going to uh we're going to do with the uh we're going to break the bleeder open a little bit put the suction thing on it and try to suck brake fluid it looks like it's working look at that yep five pounds i've used it on another uh vehicle as a matter of fact i might have used it on this front tire whenever i did the uh the brake line on the front that thing looks like it'd suck a golf ball through a garden hose look at that yep all right well cool we'll try it we'll let you know what we what we what we do here all right donny what's it doing filling up the bottom under circumstances i can't tell i can't tell if you're there that's bad because they're not working good well you know it could be up here that's got air in the line i can't can't tell i guess we'll just run a bunch through and i'll make sure the reservoir don't go empty let me go look at it that's brand new booster brand new master cylinder on it and uh so i just got to make sure that we don't run out of fluid donnie said he found two big bubbles that's good first cup pool that looks pretty good i think a lot of that dirt was from this actual bucket here okay so we're watching figuring out which uh reservoir the back brakes are on and it appears so there's this little slot in the middle that connects the two but once it gets down a little bit only the one that's being bled lower so yeah that's the that's the front reservoir donnie so the back brakes are currently hooked up to the front reservoir which we believe is correct but we're going to check all that you all right i checked the uh i checked the lines compared to my 83 and they're exactly the same so we're good the proportioning valve looks just like the one in my other truck so it must have been at least it looks like the proper replacement unless there's something changed in it or something but it looks like it's the right one the lines are hooked up right the larger line goes on the front reservoir the smaller line goes on the rear reservoir but that's actually swapped so the large line is the back brakes the small line is the front brakes so donnie is now wanting to bleed the front one he thinks we got a problem man what do you think donny when you push the brakes inside the tank that back reservoir shoots a big stream up and the front reservoir just barely moves so we're going to do these front ones and see what exactly what's going on here all right so it's front reservoir time all right donny's under the front one he said that the bleeder screws all rounded off on this one so brand new caliper bleeder screw is all boogered up because they didn't use a wrench or a socket on it why would they do that donnie must be like me and just have a pair of pliers all right all right we bled the brakes the thing still doesn't have a good pedal at all they work but it's just way down near the floor and they're spongy and so what we're doing now donny we'll take it off see if they're adjusted we're going to see what the brac the back brakes look like at least if we can try not to knock it off this jack they said they adjusted about 20 times and they say they're new so we got a lot of gear supposedly all this stuff's new that ain't there but that's fine how are those pads even then i guess because look at the retaining uh screws look at that they had the axle actually had to put right on them i think i i think i saw pictures of the the the back disassembled i mean i guess they're new it's awful funny that that adjuster is almost all the way out and it ain't touching these drones must be war slab out you think so can you tell by the wear on the pads if maybe they're not grabbing very good sorry guys i know this ain't light enough but that's just how it is sorry the pads are new they don't seem worn weird where they're not hitting right well yeah they're ate up a little bit but because if the drum was too big i think only the middle tapered there well you think you don't like the looks of that drum see why the hell back here looks like it is it really wore that much is that even possible i don't know man hmm all right we're gonna think about it okay so donnie thinks he has found the smoking guns so here's the inside of the drum there are two size drums by the way there's an 11 and then there's 11.15 and the 11 is two inch brake shoes and the 11.15 is 2.75 brake shoes so these are the smaller ones so if you look around the edge from here to there is factor see the where but from there to there could the guy went and had them turned and that's why it's like it could've but i don't i don't know that they would turn them most people don't turn them anymore they're turned if they are turned way down which that's a lot of meat i mean that's like half the meat about almost half of the meat is gone so i'm thinking the damn drumming right okay and then show them your adjuster now donny really doesn't like this he keeps going on and on about this adjuster if all this shit's new there ain't no way that adjuster should be out that far he does not like that the adjuster is up there for and we are questioning if all of this is new now show them what's going on with the pads donnie this pad here look at all that trash up at the top half of the pad it's just it's ate up it's like it's dragging or it ain't touching the drum the drum right or something i it looks like from this that it's skipping it's jumping going on but it doesn't it doesn't uh shake as you break so this pad is wore out right there you can touch the rivet and over here on this side you got a quarter inch or better to the rivet okay and then show them what else donny this side of the uh what's that called uh brakes the wheel cylinder the wheel cylinder this side of the wheel cylinder is dry this side's wet so we got a leak we've got a leak on that wheel cylinder so donny's not happy with these brakes and they do look pretty new i mean they still got paint on them but there's rust down here too so i don't know but these are new obviously and he did have the axle out because he put an r on but whoever could have uh could have helped that a little bit and the path is already glossed if you know what that means that's um the pads are slick now they're supposed to have a texture to them and they're already slicked off the whole thing is as i understand it okay now think about let's think about it for a minute if the the brake drum is too big when that wheel cylinder squeezes those pads out it's gonna push the tops out they're gonna hit first the whole rest of the pad the shoe ain't really even gonna hit but down here at the bottom they've adjusted it out with that adjuster trying to fix it they ate it off you thinking i'm thinking yeah yeah because look how the top of that pad is thinner than the rest of the pad is that ain't better yeah it's definitely been eight away and look it's all screwed up man i mean it ain't right that ain't from about there to there it looks decent about an inch in there i think all it's hitting is the top pad and you can adjust it out of the adjuster but like donnie's saying it's out pretty damn far really to be new to be new i could understand that if it was two years old three years ago and you know i'm no expert man but in my opinion that front pads ate all the hell man compared to that backpack it's half the size i wonder if those are the wrong i wonder if they're the 11 and a quarter no because pads oh yeah they're two inches instead of two and six 2.75 okay well i think we're probably gonna go get some brake parts so uh maybe wheel cylinder hardware kit pads and rotors what do you think i think the hardware kits know it looks like it you think that's cool the springs now look good well that spring didn't get replaced but you know the rest of them do you and it looks like somebody's been eating on that damn adjuster just adjusting the hell out of it trying to get brakes on do we need a new adjuster no probably not all right well we're gonna go get some stuff i guess what do you think that's what we're gonna do all right we went to the store and got a whole bunch of brake parts donny is swapping one of the shoes as we speak what do you think thing's gonna work out he said he thinks it's gonna work out and if not we'll figure it out mailed out if not we'll figure something else out don is running right through it so there's two types of brakes for the back 11 by 2 and 11.1 by 2.75 and there's two types of wheel cylinders so the new one is obviously the pretty one and the old one's that what do you think danny i think whoever the hell's been working on these trucks don't know what the hell they're doing that's what he thinks it's pretty simple all you got to do is put back what the hell you take off tell them donny tell them how to do it ain't that damn hard you just take it off and put it back bonnie said see when that falls on the ground you got to pick it up and put it back in now when we took the wheel cylinder loose it started dripping out brake fluid but actually that's a good thing that's how you bleed it it's gravity bleeding it so that proves that it's getting plenty of fluid back here or it wouldn't be uh he's going to use the screwdriver instead of this wrench the pliers first we're in some hairy stuff people we'll be back all right new drum versus old drum sorry we're not adding measurements ronnie you remember where this spring goes no he's trying to he's trying to get it he's in there like swimwear [Music] come on baby bam bam bigelow we're getting there now now we're going to get a spring on the bottom and our adjustment and we'll be done with this what do you think about that people done with this side you heard the man okay so he's he has to run it all the way in basically to get those pads in but we won't know how far he has to adjust it out um until we get the drum on what do you think donnie well replaced everything break wise on this side so we'll get the uh we'll get the new drum on and adjust that adjuster get on the other side and see what's going to see what's going on the other side it might be messed up too but we'll see donnie's got a milwaukee impact impact wrench you know things twice as strong as about any air impact that you can get now we are not being paid by milwaukee to say this he's just thrilled that things like 1400 foot pounds now whenever we were younger we could only dream of having an impact wrench like that that wasn't pneumatic yeah i think everybody was dreaming uh i don't think nobody made it yeah i don't even know if there was a cordless well there's probably a cordless but there was nothing that was down 14 1500 foot pound still today there's only a few and uh that one's in the league you know by itself price wise versus the uh the usability of it and we've uh we've been using them for a couple years now pretty good stuff the batteries aren't even burnt up yet yeah we haven't lost any batteries yet and we've been we've been using all milwaukee stuff for a couple years now and joe donny uses stuff uh pretty much daily and uh joey uses stuff pretty much daily at the shop and then this stuff down here we let it sit for weeks months and sometimes sometimes a month yeah somebody can get them and it don't it don't bother the batteries we like you like it all right so i went in the truck and i pressed the brake and the wheel stopped moving so it's at least trying to move in some way so we're going to jump over the other side and see what it looks like and swap the wheel cylinder over there and the brake pads and see what we're working with all right so we're doing the driver's side and donnie thinks that everything has already been replaced the pads look much better pads are new the the springs are different colors which somebody put a spring kit in that so they're new the adjuster is new it's not rusted it's got regular paint everything on this side is good except for the road the drone itself so the drum does it have the same kind of yeah yeah it's got that lift in there where you can tell yeah it's well we'll put a new drum on it and you think the uh the wheel cylinder and the pads are fine yeah everybody says they're adjusting these uh brakes you know nobody's took a drum off to adjust that thing you could tell by them lugs nobody took it off yep so everybody lied about adjusting them donny ain't happy there ain't no hole in the backing plate like you normally adjust them you gotta adjust these through the drum and nobody's adjusting i might assure you well we're gonna adjust them yep all right let me get the other uh drum donnie are you drilling a hole in my truck yep right in the backing plate you ready okay y'all i'm gonna try to get this on video watch right there and we're doing at the old school way let's watch this fluid come out see that area right there at the end when it spit out that's air coming out ronnie you're good to pump so i got ronnie up here pumping the brakes and i'm back here bleeding when for some reason we can't get the air out and uh every time right at the end it wants to spit a big chunk of air so we're just going and going and going and going here all right my battery's about dead and blight here we go ronnie you see that right there at the end again it did it all right so we're going to keep going until we don't have no more of that all right folks we took it out driving and then we parked it again we think we've got the brakes done what was wrong with the brakes donnie ultimately out of adjustment and they needed bleeding the rotor of the drums was war and that's about it it's still got a little bit of a they're not like a brand new car but i started thinking about it and they're about the same as my other trucks i think they're up the par with the way they were designed there's no leaks the wheel cylinders look good we bled all four tires or all four cylinders we cut adjusting holes in the backing plates yeah he cut it so he was drilling holes in the backing plate so that we could stick a screwdriver in there and do this it was a was it more like this or like that like like that and that got it where it was adjusted outright so basically when you put the new shoes on you get it where they're starting to drag a little bit but the reason they're dragging is because you just put the shoes on so you drive it down the street a little bit and it gets it a little more and then we came back and they weren't very tight at all so we adjusted it out some more and got it till it was uh doing its thing so we think that we've got it uh we think we've got it good so we had our visitors coming by how's it going bud so we uh and the kids are out playing on the four-wheeler over there not my kids neighborhood kids the uh playing on the 4x4 so the four-wheeler not the 4x4 so give us your comments below give us a thumbs up for filming it for you and uh next next trip we're going to start working on some of the gauges we got to get the gauges where we can tell if the oil pressure is good tell if the water temperature is right and all that stuff so we're going to mess with gauges next time so hope you enjoyed the what little bit of it we were able to film and we'll see you on the next one