etrailer | Dexter Trailer Brake Drum Review

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Speaker 1: Today we're gonna be taking a look at the non-ABS Dexter trailer brake drum for 9,000 to 10,000 pound axles with an eight on six and a half inch bolt pattern and that's gonna be part number 9-44-1. Here's what our drums look like when we have them installed and the purpose is they're gonna give us a surface for our brake shoes to contact to help slow our trailer down. Our drums are gonna be compatible with 9,000 and 10,000 pound oil hub assemblies which are sold separately.Our drums are gonna be 12 and one quarter inches in diameter and three and three-eighths inches wide. Our drums are gonna have a cast iron construction and they're gonna work with non-ABS electric or hydraulic drum brakes. Now that we've seen our drums and gone over some of the features let's show you how to get it installed.In order to get our new parts on we're gonna have to take our old parts off. We're gonna start by taking off our oil cap, now we have already drained our oil and if you haven't it would be a good time to go ahead and pull the cap and get as much oil out as you can so you don't make a big mess.

In order to get the nut off we're gonna have to bend these tabs out of the way so that we can spin it off. We can take a flathead screwdriver and a hammer and tap them out of the way.Take a large pair of channel locks and loosen that nut up, start pulling everything out. Remove the outer nut and then the retaining washer then the inner nut and we can pull the flat washer that was behind it off and then finally you can start working our drum back and once we have enough room we can pull the bearing out. Now would be a good time to go ahead and inspect the bearing for any kind of wear or any scoring or major heat marks before we get too far into it. We'll go ahead and clean it off and make sure that our bearing's in good shape.Now with our outer bearing and all the nuts removed we'll go ahead and grab our drum and we're gonna start working it off the spindle, just want to be careful because it is rather heavy.

Make sure you have a firm grip on it and we can remove it and set it aside for now. With the drum off now would be a good time and go ahead and inspect the spindle and all the other components on the inside, cleaning it off, making sure there's no major wear on the spindle or anywhere else.To replace our drum we're gonna have to remove the hub from it so we can go ahead and flip it over to the inside and we can see where it's bolted in. Now it's not uncommon for these bolts to be covered up with a lot brake dust so it's a good idea to go ahead and take a small screwdriver or a pick and clean out around the bolts. You want to make sure you clean them out really well so that way you can get a socket on there to fully engage and it doesn't round out the bolts. Just want to go around each one of the bolts and clean them out and get all that dirt and brake dust out of there.

I'm gonna take a half inch socket and remove all the bolts and we will be reusing these bolts so you want to be extra careful when you're taking them out.Once we have all the bolts removed we can go ahead and turn our hub and drum assembly back on the side and most likely it is gonna be stuck on there pretty well so you just want to take a hammer and give it a good whack two times around the edge to separate the drum from the hub. You just want to stay away from the studs because you don't want to damage those. Now we can set our old drum aside and grab the new one.Now when you're replacing your drum and you have the hub off it's always a good idea to go ahead and check your seal and as you can see this one's been leaking pretty good so we're gonna go ahead and replace it. The easiest way to get it out is to just take a flathead screwdriver and you come underneath and just gently pry up on it. Since we have the seal out it's not a bad idea to go ahead and check the bearing and the races for any kind of damage or wear.

It's always a good idea to go ahead and clean up any of the debris and the buildup that was building up around that seal. Make it a little bit easier to check everything and we don't have to worry about contaminating the inside of our hub.We can grab our new seal, making sure to put our bearing back in place, and our seal's gonna have two sides. One side is gonna be metal and then the other side is gonna be a rubber piece, you want to make sure that metal piece is going towards the inside of the hub towards the bearing so we can just loosely put it i