Baer parking brake shoe won't fit over the axle flange?

[RDuke]

Anyone ever experience this before?

https://www.baer.com/manuals/6000264.pdf

Pro+ 14" rear kit with internal parking brake. 9" rear end with Strange 31 spline axles. I can't get the parking brake shoe over the axle flange. The strange axle flange is 6.245" in diameter, which is standard for strange axles. The inner diameter of the shoe is exactly 6".

I can't see any other shoe with a different inner diameter. Here's what the shoe looks like for reference:https://baer.com/Park-Brake-Shoe-PBK19x.html
I can always grind the shoe down to clearance as there's plenty of meat on the shoe if need be, but am I missing something?

The axle bearing are pressed on so there's no room to slide it out and still get the backing plate and shoe on from the back side. Tried that, no luck.

I'm going to give a call to Baer tech line in the morning to see what's up. I'm hoping though it's something simple I'm over looking.

[69hugger]

As I recall, you use the open part of the shoe to finagle it over the flange. A bit like installing a piston ring over the piston. But you can’t twist the shoe of course. It looks impossible until you do it the first time. Once you figure it out, it is a simple process. I realize my explanation is worthless. Hopefully Baer can explain it better than I did.

[camcojb]

I noticed the same thing when I mocked mine up. I didn't spend any extra time figuring it out as I just needed to be able to bolt on the wheels/tires to roll the car around and everything would be coming back apart for paint/powdercoating. Now I'll go out there tomorrow and figure it out since you reminded me. I'll let you know what I find, I'm sure it's doable.

[camcojb]

It was just like Bill said above, just had to be finagled. I removed the top spring clamp for extra room, and then wound the brake shoe around the axle. Slide the brake shoe up over the adjuster tabs and then re-install the upper spring clamp assembly.

[Musclerodz]

you have to disassemble half of it to install it.

[camcojb]

Originally Posted by Musclerodz

you have to disassemble half of it to install it.

Pretty much...

[paulk68]

Here is a video I found helpful with mine!

[RDuke]

Thanks guys. Tech said the same thing. It doesn’t slide over the axle face. On mine it looks like I have lock washers between the studs and the inner axle face. The issue is this may be causing my clearance problems. I’m going to keep at it this weekend when I get back and see if I can figure it out.

[RDuke]

Thanks guys,

Closing the loop on this. I finally was able to get back into the garage last night and I figured it out. I had to loosen everything, take the top connector off, and I had to slip the shoe on from the bottom up, then turn it 180.