How to Change a Brake Wheel Cylinder

A brake wheel cylinder will wear out over time. This causes the cylinder to get damaged easily, affecting the brakes of your car. The leaking fluid can cause the car to have a hard time using its brakes, causing the car to stop. The perfect way to fix this problem is to replace or change the brake wheel cylinder. This will help you save yourself from accidents while using a car with a bad brake wheel cylinder. You can do the replacement yourself with a few tools.

Instructions

1

Park your car on level ground and use bricks to block the tires on both sides to prevent the vehicle from moving while you do the replacement. Raise the car with a floor jack and support it with jack stands. Remove the tire and its brake drum.

2

Check the cylinder of the brake wheel to spot the leaks. Use a brake cleaner to clean the entire vacuum plate as well as the brake shoes.

3

Take out the upper return springs from the wheel brake shoes with your brake spring removal tool. Take out the parking brake strut by pressing the spring tool inward and holding down the cup to turn it slightly. Hold the retaining pin in its place from the backside, and pull the brakes from its vacuum plate.

4

Disconnect the arm of the parking brake while you remove the brake shoes to gain full access to the brake wheel cylinder.

5

Spray penetrating oil onto the wheel cylinder and onto the brake lines. Use a flare nut wrench to loosen the line and remove the clips and bolts that hold the cylinder.

6

Take out the old brake wheel cylinder, and install the new one in the same placement of the old cylinder. Tighten its line with a wrench, and reinstall the brake drum and brake shoes into the original position.

7

Reverse the process to put the car parts back together.