This is a Project, and I will need your Help to Successfully finish it,
so any Advice, Idea, Experiences and Suggestions are very Welcome.
so any Advice, Idea, Experiences and Suggestions are very Welcome.
So, I am perfectionist and I somehow "Need" that my cars run Mechanically as near as Perfect could be Possible, but my Wife's "KiaStein" needs monthly adjustments to the Rear Drum Brake's Shoes and I'm getting very Tired doing that monthly adjustment.
(More info, ~► Here.)
Not only because it is a Pain in the Rear to do such simple Job, due to the Lack of a well designed way to adjust 'em from the outside (There is an unuseful misaligned tiny hole in the Back of the Backing Plate and I never found a tool capable to "Magically" reach the adjuster thru it) and thus mean that you "Need" to remove the Whole Drum to do the Adjustment (many times 'till is done right), but also Because I suffer from Deep & Horrid Gout Foot Attacks some times per year, and during those days, I couldn't do that adjustment and I have to drive my Wife's "KiaStein" because is Automatic and thus mean to use only one foot...
The Rear Drum Brake system found on the Second Gen Sephia uses a Ratcheting Cam (Named "Strut" by Kia) that is suposed to take up play as Brake Shoes wear, but definitively, such thing doesn't work at all due to their bad design, and as the rear brake shoes wear, their surface gets farther from the rotating drum and during braking, the rear wheels spin freely while the fronts are doing the braking effort, because the rear brake pumps can't handle well the extra distance without a useful automatic shoes adjuster, that means that the rear shoes are barely "Touching" the Drums under Braking, while the fronts could be at Maximum clamping force.
So, in order to compensate the normal wear on the rear shoes, the car needs Monthly adjustments to the Rear Drum Brakes to Keep said shoes as near to the Rotating drum as possible, and thus means to have a firm & tall brake pedal, and ensure that it has the proper braking power to be Safe... but I'm really tired of doing that, I already tried with new Adjusters, springs, etc... it is a Faulty design that never worked at all.
Kia found the only Real solution to that problem: To install Factory Rear Disc Brakes.
I Know that there was a "Top of the Line" second gen Kia Sephia (Premium) Model with Factory Rear Disc Brakes, but is not easy to come across one of those in Local Junk Yards.
So, the Questions Are:
► Have anybody did the Rear Disc Brakes Swap or Retrofit on a 2000 Kia Sehia Before?
► Where I could find Used parts from a Second Gen (1998 ~ 2001) Kia Sephia with Factory Rear Disc Brakes to do the Swap?
► Does another Model's Rear Disc Brakes, fit onto the Sephia's Trail arms? ... in order to do a Retrofitting.
► If so, which Model? ... Spectra? ... or Another Non Kia, such like Hyundai?
► Could I use the Same Cables to enable the Park Brake function?
If someone comes across to a Sephia with Factory Rear Disc Brakes in Good Shape, I will buy 'em from you, so please let me Know.
Also let me Know if someone has already done such Swap or Retrofitting, and please point me to the Thread that has the Info
(I searched and found nothing).
Kind Regards.