I have a 99 NON ABS with the Chrysler rear end. I have been fighting one rear drum (driver side) running hotter for about a year now. It started with a smoking drum and from there and since then I have replaced the cylinder twice, all springs, the line to the wheel from the axle block and it still runs hotter (about 60F-80F degrees). It only ever got the point of smoking once. I can't trust it to go on a trip over about 20 minutes since it gets progressively hotter at highway speeds and I dont' want to deal with it locking up again or some other catastrophe. It got hot enough recently to warp a brand new drum that I put on in June. E brake is not used but functional, bearing seems good, no noise no play at all. I think the only explanation is that the adjuster keeps over tightening to the point of introducing drag for some reason.
I saw on another forum guys talking about a hardware kit to eliminate adjusters on a particular Ford truck. Is there such a kit available for the XJ and or how could you stop the adjusters from working and then just manually adjust as needed? On the same forum a guy recommended cutting the cable that goes to the spring mechanism that rides against the adjuster but I didn't want to do anything without posting here for advice first. I'm just ready to push this $#&%*ing thing over a cliff and it's a shame I just replaced the front track bar, strut ..exhaust a couple years ago and it only has 142k but I'm losing my mind trying to get this issue solved.
I saw on another forum guys talking about a hardware kit to eliminate adjusters on a particular Ford truck. Is there such a kit available for the XJ and or how could you stop the adjusters from working and then just manually adjust as needed? On the same forum a guy recommended cutting the cable that goes to the spring mechanism that rides against the adjuster but I didn't want to do anything without posting here for advice first. I'm just ready to push this $#&%*ing thing over a cliff and it's a shame I just replaced the front track bar, strut ..exhaust a couple years ago and it only has 142k but I'm losing my mind trying to get this issue solved.