Another rotted out rear axle beam

[09GLH]

Originally Posted by Billiam

Thats about one mine looked like. I was fortunate though, in that I didn't need any other parts. Everything else was in good shape

The backing plates I could have reused, but were delaminating pretty bad. Those got replaced. Already had new wheel cylinders from a previous brake job. The bearings were coming apart on the inside where the sensor is so those had to be replaced. All the springs, pins, and brake shoes were fine. I ended up not using the rubber lines either. So I only needed 2 extra parts to add to the new axle beam, luckily.

How many miles had you put on when you had to replace the beam? I'm sitting at 292,300.

[Billiam]

Originally Posted by 09GLH

The backing plates I could have reused, but were delaminating pretty bad. Those got replaced. Already had new wheel cylinders from a previous brake job. The bearings were coming apart on the inside where the sensor is so those had to be replaced. All the springs, pins, and brake shoes were fine. I ended up not using the rubber lines either. So I only needed 2 extra parts to add to the new axle beam, luckily.

How many miles had you put on when you had to replace the beam? I'm sitting at 292,300.

3 years ago is when this happened.....so car would have been about 13 years old and about 160k miles.