For the past few months, I have noticed a burning smell coming from my rear passenger wheel of my 2010 Honda CRV that has 105k miles on it. I notice when I go over 70 miles per hour on the highway, my car will vibrate and I notice that the burning smell on the rear passenger tire is much worse. I replaced the wheel bearing assembly, caliper, rotor and pads on the rear passenger tire and I still smell the burning smell. I'm starting to think that the drum portion of the brake is the issue. Is it possible that the drum shoes are rubbing on the inside of the rotor unevenly or constantly at high speeds? If so, how should I go about fixing the drum portion of the brakes.
Below is a link of the photos I took when I was replacing the wheel bearing assembly. I was wondering if the discoloration on the axle was normal?
Not really. There are just a lot of springs and spacers and lock washers and plungers to keep track of. Best way I know to keep track is to take really good photos of the passenger and drivers sides (don't mix them up) then you'll be able to reassemble everything back to the way it was. You should probably invest $12 in a Haynes or equivalent repair manual for the excellent diagrams they have as well.
Awesome thank you! I'll get that manual and watch a few videos and see what I can learn!
There is no rear caliper as you are showing pictures of drum brakes. It's either drums or calipers, not both. You don't replace pads on drum brakes, only shoes. I hope you didn't mix up the leading shoe with the following shoe, they are different. If some rear axle gear oil leaked, the drum may be a little contaminated and causing the smell. Also check that the wheel slave cylinder is not leaking brake fluid into the drum.
The single piston caliper is hung up behind the drum in the first picture on a bungee. It is tough to see but there is a drum for the E-brake and a single piston caliper along with the brake pads that stop against a rotor that is also not pictured. I did not do any work on the drums but am wondering if the burning smell was possibly from the shoe constantly skimming the inside of the rotor.
So the drum and shoes are the parking brake and the caliper and disc are the regular brakes. Look for fluid leaking from any hydraulically operated component. Sorry for the mix up. I did some research to see the parking vs regular brakes. "Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain."
Exactly. I'm very confident with the disc brakes but the drum brake portion looks so complicated to me. From what I could tell I didn't see any fluid leaking. Is it a big job to replace the drum brake portion of my e brake?