ASAP help required... ST215 rear disc...

[peas]

Driving down the road and then clunk clunk clunk etc... got car home and back to garage pulled wheel off, removed caliper and set about removing disc rotor... or not. The handbrake shoes seem to be expanded inside the rotor and so are putting up a worthy fight for me to get it off... I have ensured that the brake is off but am at a loss at the moment... I have been prising it off but are running out of leverage... the shoes seem to be free at the top (makes sense as that is where they pivot) but binding up at the bottom of the hub... any suggestions... please!!!

Andy

[peas]

Okay typically no sooner do I post does the bloody thing almost fall off! It seems that the washer type thing that holds the spring that keeps the shoes friction surface aligned to the surface of the inside of the rotor is poked so it must have been the shoe grabbing and making that noise...

so.... looking for one of those washer type things... has a slot in the middle so that the pin inserted from the back of the hub can pass through then rotate 90 degrees to lock into position... any ideas... on a Sunday

[Mr Revhead]

take a sample to pick a part and start looking
i bet you it is not specific to the 215

[fivebob]

I just did a check on the EPC and came up with 116 different models that share the same part#. So pretty much any Toyota with the same sort of parking brake assembly should use them.

[peas]

Sweet! Cheers guys... hopefully I can dodge the showers tomorrow

[fivebob]

A quick cross reference against Pick-A-Parts stock list reveals a Scepter wagon at Avondale which should have what you want.