brake drum

Hey guys, I bought another ranger around two months ago, a 2006 fx4. It seemed like it didnt really want to stop when braking so I replaced front pads/rotors and rear drums/shoes/cylinders. The pedal feel was still horrible and had a whoosh coming from busted diaphragm in the brake booster, thus...

So I've found a leak in my driver side rear brake line. I was planning to replace the line tomorrow so I went to put some PB blaster on it. I found that it looks like my bleeder on the brake is sheared off. Here is a picture of both rear drum brakes, one missing part of the bleeder Any advice?

So a few years ago the emergency brake was ruined due to someone (I won’t admit to it!) driving the truck with the parking brake engaged. I know, I know, ruined the driver side drum. We replaced it with junkyard components, and everything was good, the parking brake remained disconnected. Jump...

Ok so I noticed a kind of grinding noise coming from my rear wheels and I took the drums off and all the springs and everything were rusted to heck and back, so I got new springs and cylinders and drums and all that good stuff.. I replaced everything and am pretty darn certain I put all the...