I haven’t had a car with drums for a long time, but what I used to do was jack both sides up at the same time, place jack stands, but only do one side at a time. That way I had the other side available for reference in case something befuddled me.
And just to mention, https://charm.li/about.html has free online service manuals for almost every vehicle between 1982-2013 if you need one.
We have high resolution cameras in our pockets now. If you don’t know what you are doing with any machine, take pictures and more than you think you need.
When I design electronics nowadays (that never works right at the first … few … tries), I don’t bother looking at the circuits anymore. I take pictures at several angles, and go try to find my mistakes at the computer screen.
It’s great, in that I can even write all over stuff if I want.
I did this on my truck and then realized the last guy didn’t know what he was doing and had the shoes on backwards. It’s a lot easier and makes more sense now after doing them a couple times.
I haven’t had a car with drums for a long time, but what I used to do was jack both sides up at the same time, place jack stands, but only do one side at a time. That way I had the other side available for reference in case something befuddled me.
And just to mention, https://charm.li/about.html has free online service manuals for almost every vehicle between 1982-2013 if you need one.
We have high resolution cameras in our pockets now. If you don’t know what you are doing with any machine, take pictures and more than you think you need.
That’s how I unfuck everything I try and fix, I just take a picture everytime something moves and try and retrace.
When I design electronics nowadays (that never works right at the first … few … tries), I don’t bother looking at the circuits anymore. I take pictures at several angles, and go try to find my mistakes at the computer screen.
It’s great, in that I can even write all over stuff if I want.
I did this on my truck and then realized the last guy didn’t know what he was doing and had the shoes on backwards. It’s a lot easier and makes more sense now after doing them a couple times.
This is the method I used when I had the misfortune of doing drum brakes a couple times.