even with adjusters backed all the way off they still don't go on. I am resorting to grinding the dicks down on the shoes where they go on the wheel cylinders.

Thank fuck you drive in Vic and I'm nearly 2000km's away from your dodgy shit.

www.suzukiinfo.com download the FSM and you'll have all the answers.

AH!

thank your stars im not heaps not near you too.

I remember doing that same thing (grinding off the extra bit) when I compared them to the ones that came out of the car they were a different shape.

ha!

You guys need to learn to SERVICE your cars.... Not just repair them when they break.

You guys need to learn to SERVICE your cars.... Not just repair them when they break.

What would make you possibly think we dont service our cars? Comments like that are asking for a flame war! Ive done major services to mine 3 times in 8 months! I pulled off the whole front of the motor and replaced much of it because the fan pulley was a little wobbly, changed unis in the front drive shaft that were hardly worn.

I don't want to talk to you, no more, you empty-headed animal,
food trough wiper. I fart in your general direction. You mother was a
hamster and your father smelt of elderberries.

Actually, I would have change the cylinder to the correct one too but given the shoes that came out were done the same way and worn very evenly, and I had just spent hundereds of dollars on other parts and I had to get the RWC the next day to make my Vic Roads appointment I did it.

Now go away or I shall taunt you a second time!

You guys need to learn to SERVICE your cars.... Not just repair them when they break.

even with adjusters backed all the way off they still don't go on. I am resorting to grinding the dicks down on the shoes where they go on the wheel cylinders.

You either have the wrong wheel cylinders or brake shoes mate. There are a few different combinations out there.

Grinding down the tabs on the shoe sounds dodgy but personally I don't see an issue with it as long as there is sufficient material left on the tab to properly locate it within the wheel cylinder and the wheel cylinder does not over extend.

What would make you possibly think we dont service our cars? Comments like that are asking for a flame war!

Ive done major services to mine 3 times in 8 months! I pulled off the whole front of the motor and replaced much of it because the fan pulley was a little wobbly, changed unis in the front drive shaft that were hardly worn.

and they seem to interchange ok as I used the new nt shoes on my old dif in the wt diffs with no issues

it was a matter of grind a bees dick off coz all adjusted loose it still wouldn't go on. Now tell me whats better brakes that work well or brakes that dont.

If you, or anyone really, service a vehicle thoroughly and regularly you will know what needs replacing before it reaches its wear limit. You don't wait till your brakes are metal on metal to change the shoes do you? You want to do them while there is still material left. By using this rationale, if you find you have been supplied incorrect parts, you can refit old parts to get you mobile to enable procurement of correct items.
Hence my original statement about servicing not just fixing.

A wobbly water pump has reached its service life and should be replaced, replacing the timing belt, idler bearing and seals while you are there is standard practice.... Uni joints with ANY play in them should also be replaced.
The difference I'm getting at is scheduled versus unscheduled work..
How often do you see an ambulance broken down?