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Help! Where does this spring go? 88 4Runner rear brakes!
Replaced the rear shoes a while back and parked the truck for a bit. Found this spring on my bench. Pretty sure it's part of the rear brakes. Likely something to do with the return lever? Online tutorials and pictures aren't showing this spring so maybe it's pretty unique to the 1988 V6 rear brakes?
Thank you! Though I already have the top tensioning spring and the smaller adjuster spring on. This looks like the top tensioner in the video but my brakes are a bit different and use a longer spring with a flat section in the middle. What I posted was a second heavy looking spring thta isn't in that video
Last edited by The Rusty Gear; Mar 6, 2022 at 12:20 PM.
I saw that style in some pics too. Looks like it clips to the shoes just below the tensionor/adjuster. My 86 2WD has this style of rear brakes. Where did you get that short spring from? It just might not apply to your brakes at all. Was it a wrong part order not returned.
Could it be the one that goes onto the bottom of the shoes? IIRC there's a spring right at the bottom end of the shoes, that goes to the two shoes, and that might be it.
I did the rears on both my 87's, but it was more than 20 years ago, when I was in Yuma. I can't recall just exactly what that bottom spring looked like, I just remember I absolutely hate drum brakes. I'll work on discs all day, but NOT drums if I can avoid it.
It doesn't look like any of the springs in the FSM, though:
Could it be one that came with the shoes, the one labeled "Anchor Spring" in the diagram, or the kit, and is for a different application?
Maybe you need to take one side or the other back off, just the outer, actual "Drum", and LOOK into you current set up and see if there's a spring that looks like it on either side?
Could it be the one that goes onto the bottom of the shoes? IIRC there's a spring right at the bottom end of the shoes, that goes to the two shoes, and that might be it.
I did the rears on both my 87's, but it was more than 20 years ago, when I was in Yuma. I can't recall just exactly what that bottom spring looked like, I just remember I absolutely hate drum brakes. I'll work on discs all day, but NOT drums if I can avoid it.
It doesn't look like any of the springs in the FSM, though:
Could it be one that came with the shoes, the one labeled "Anchor Spring" in the diagram, or the kit, and is for a different application?
Maybe you need to take one side or the other back off, just the outer, actual "Drum", and LOOK into you current set up and see if there's a spring that looks like it on either side?
Just a thought. I get so few any more....
Pat☺
It's not the anchor spring. That's already installed. I found this spring on my workbench and though t it was for my rear brakes. I took off the other side, and I could not find this spring on that side, so I only have this one spring, likely not from the brakes . . . .What else have I worked on recently that this could be from . . . . . ugh
Mar 6, 2022 | 10:50 AM
