Take the tires off if you have outboard drums.Release the brakes on that wheel by backing off the slack adjuster.Take the drum and brake shoes off after taking a picture of it on your phone if you can,and take the brake shoes to a store that sells truck parts. Probably you should call Napa and ask what they want for their shoes.Then call a truck parts place.If brakes for one wheel are over 55 dollars for a boxed brake shoes kit with new springs then you probably are getting ripped off. I cant ever remember working on a Ford truck that big.Maybe, but long ago.Basically most trucks like KWs ,Peterbuilts,Freightliners have 2 styles.Both quick change but have different size holes and different rollers,springs and stuff.Rockwell and Eaton or there are other names for them,I just dont remember what the names are.
There are 3 different grades too,soft,medium and hard.Soft being the cheapest,hard being the worst on the drums because they have metal in the mixture they are made out of.After thinking about it,that 55 dollars was last year,maybe the year before.Napa or OReillys could be alright,but I would almost bet that they are higher priced than a truck parts place like Inland,or Truck Pro,or others.Evem MHC Kenworth,Freightliner,Peterbuilt,International and other truck companys sell parts.Kenworth has sales all the time and could beat even a truck place.Especially on batteries.That would all be right if Ford doesnt have some wierd kind of brake shoe that only they have.I doubt it,but anything is possible especially with Ford parts.
When they still made Ford big trucks,Ford sold parts for all kinds of trucks.They were reasonably priced too.I bought some stuff from them before,but since they have been taken over by Sterling I dont know if they still sell parts or not.Maybe they do by whoever bought Sterling.Even GM sold truck parts but they were usually high priced compared to the others.All of them are high priced if they have a part you cant get anywhere except from them.
Napa and ORiellys depend a lot on how much truck stuff they keep.Ive been surprised by them before,but usually they didnt have what I needed.A good parts man can get you about anything if you can get him to do it.I have got stuff from a truck place that auto parts claimed they couldnt get.I have no idea why,and it was cheaper than the other place if they had it?I dont think it works the other way.Napa and Oriellys are going to be higher on the truck parts probably.With your discount its usually higher than a truck place still.
I had to have some steer axle brake shoes one time and the truck place was out of them.Oriellys had them but almost 3 times more than the truck place.Napa probably is no different.I get a discount too.
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