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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.

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

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

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

 
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