cmmiu

Hi all, I just did a complete rear drum brake replacement (wheel cylinder, shoes, drum) on my '00 Civic. After putting the passenger side back together, I realized that I installed the horse shoe-shaped retaining clip (that retains the trailing shoe to the parking brake lever) on the wrong side of the shoe (see attached pic; the retaining clip is the one just to the bottom left of the wheel cylinder and above the green-colored main return spring). The retaining clip shouldn't be visible; in other words, I installed the pin that secures the trailing shoe and parking brake lever in from the wrong direction. As a result, it appears there's light contact between the retaining clip and the main return spring. Should I be worried about that? I'm concerned that the return spring would become damaged from chaffing over time and potentially break. Or is a little contact no big deal? It was a pain to get everything back together so that's why I'm asking as I don't really want to tear it all back apart. Thanks.

ezone

Best correct it now, it could cause much bigger problems if something goes wrong while you are driving on the road.

D17VTECPOWER

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Correct it now. Don't wait for it to cause more problems!

GolNat

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Why are we responding to 8 month old threads with no useful information added?!?

Colin42