My 03 Vibe is at ~128K miles, so I figured it must be time to deal with the rear brake shoes. There are several threads here at genvibe where people have said they had great difficulty removing the rear brake drums, and I confess, those suckers are really on there. However, I noticed that there are two threaded holes in the brake drum, and as luck would have it, I had two bolts of the right size/thread. Running the bolts in pushes against the hub, draws the drum off nicely. Just be sure to alternate, a half turn on each, untl it pulls off.I do not know what size the bolts are, but I did confirm that they are the exact same size/thread as the gray plastic disk that holds the inner tray in place above the spare tire, under the rear deck. If you need to pull your rear brake drums off and don't have the right size bolts, take that gray disk into a hardware store to match with a pair of bolts. (or use that disk to verify that you do have the right size bolts)EDIT Per vibecrxsi240sxse in http://forums.genvibe.com/zerothread?id=35675 the threaded holes are metric, size M8-1.25Here is a picture showing the removed brake drum with the bolts I used, Also inset is a snap of the tray above the spare, showing the gray disk I mentioned, and a snap of the inner surface of the brake drum, which had no significant grooving/wear
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