I have a slight pull to the right when braking. Found out by adjusting the rears in reverse the right rear is locking up sooner than the left rear.

After a couple of reverse adjustments the rear brakes with lock up evenly and the pull will go away. A week later the pull is back. I go through the process of adjusting them by driving the car in reverse same thing, right rear is locking up sooner than the left.

All new drum hardaware in the rear, pads on correctly, adjusters are lubed and spin free. Lines have been bleed.

Not sure where else to go. Anyone?

Heck...

You are supposed ta run them "big-an-littles", "front to rear" NOT "side ta side"!!!

He, He!!!

You got me b/c I was going to ask if you had one new drum and one old drum on the back???

The old '64 Ford Fairlane S/W I had years ago did all sorts a things while breaking and I went and had the drums turned and took care of a bunch a wondering..

Maybe it's as stupid as brake shoe dust loading up more on one then the other b/c I do know that after I check mine and knock/blow/clean the dust off everything, (being careful not to breath any dust), they brake better..

????????? --- pdq67

The drums are original to the car. The only thing I did was have them turned.

I wonder how close each drum was turned to the other diameter-wise, right down to the .0005" sorta thing???

Just thinking out loud????

pdq67

Rear drums with the self adjusters and parking brake mechanism are the work of the devil. Whenever I've had problems I found that by pulling both sides (wheels/drums) and comparing the two I have been able to discover a discrepancy.

And it is always subtle. A piece that is slightly out of place. A piece that is formed not quite the same as the same piece on the other side. Stuff like that.

The shoes eventually groove the backing plate. This causes uneven apply, along with uneven adjusting. Difference in springs, a misplaced spring.

Last time I had a problem it was over several days that I kept studying it, prodding the parts, moving, prying on stuff. Finally (!) I found that a particular piece that controlled the self adjuster wasn't quite shaped correctly. Somehow it had gotten bent a tad and wasn't always holding the star wheel from moving.

By comparing it to the same piece on the other side I was able to bend it back. That did the trick.

Bob.

Thanks a67! pdq67

How about the spring on the bottom of the two shoes that goes across the adjuster, if it is installed Vicky-Verky it runs interferance with the star wheel, and will not adjust in the forward driving postion,

Yes, I learned the hard way as a kid not to take both of them off at the same time b/c then I couldn't use the untouched one as a model to put the other one back together right!!

I had to get one of the brothers that owned the gas station where I tore into my '57 at, out in the gravel, to help me figure out how to put my first brakeshoe job back together right!

pdq67

And that only works if the second side was done right by the last person who fixed it.