Just worked on my boat trailer, electric brakes on 7500 lb Dexter axels with Dexter brakes. Pulled the bearings and seals, cleaned out the grease, repacked with marine bearing grease and put bearing buddies instead of the demolished dust caps.
My backing plates are easily reachable from the rear of the wheel with the wheel mounted. If I were to put on new brake backing plates I'd just place them in there drums on the wheels, bolt it all up and adjust the brake shoe adjusters so they would barely turn. Then I'd tack weld in a couple places and take everything off and weld front and back.
The shoes float quite a bit so it wouldn't have to be perfect on center, but I don't see how you could miss with the method above.
Bart D. Hull snipped-for-privacy@inficad.com Tempe, Arizona
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