[Tomguy]

This is only happening on my rear passenger wheel.

The story: Rear axle seal leaked, wouldn't pass inspection as it was. The guy also told me that since the shoes were coated in grease, that'd break them down and they had to be replaced. I got new shoes and put them on the wheel. The brakes worked fine before. Now, they drag. I don't have the sides mixed up, before you ask (there is one smaller shoe and one larger shoe on this side). I have the adjustment all the way in. The top of the shoes are resting up against the metal slide piece (whatever it's called) and therefore can't go in any further.

Is my parking brake possibly at fault here? The inside metal piece for the parking brake is what's resting against the stop, not the shoe itself, but the shoe won't go in any further as a result. Advice?

[HEAPXJ]

I've had that happen before. The parking brake was causing the shoes to fuse to the drum. Check the e-brake tension and double check your work inside the drum.

[xjzjforme]

mine did that too.....some of my parts were siezed up...... i changed all the springs and **** and it worked fine

[Tomguy]

Work inside the drum is all good.
The parking brake tension isn't too tight but if I wanted to adjust it I couldn't because it's rusted.
The hardware inside (springs etc) are under a year old.

The parking brake tensioner is angled and is pulling on the passenger side but not the driver's side. It's not perpendicuar with the vehicle but at about a 70 degree angle (instead of 90). I can manually set it to be perpendicular but it goes back to the angle. Even with that aside I think that's not the issue. I'm thinking the cable for that side is maybe frozen because when I pull the parking brake all the way it doesn't actually have any affect on the passenger side!