[Rob Doe]

Coyle,

How far on does the drum go? Is it the service brake shoes and linings that are holding the drum off or the E-brakes? If it is the service shoes, there is a last little bit of installation movement on the service shoes that gets the head of the roller pin to ride properly on the roller track. I dealt with this yesterday.

The head of the roller pin and the track are not visible. The only external indication that I had that the roller pin head was in the right position on the track was: When looking straight at the upper shoe roller, the face of the cam shaft and the lower roller...the faces of the two rollers are set back about an 1/8" from the face of the cam shaft. At first, they were all three flush with one another.

There is a brake tool from vendors that looks like a grip off a pistol. It has two hooks on it and is made to give the user plenty of leverage to remove the shoes or install the shoes easily expanding the springs. If the properly shaped and tension springs are used, the shoes can be removed and installed by hand...unless you're aging.

Also, the long spring holding the shoes needs to be installed correctly so that e-brake carrier does not set on top of the middle part of the spring. On our car the long spring was not shaped correctly and was in the way of fully seating the e-brake carrier. I had ordered new springs from Snyders to solve the problem. The springs on the car were also much stiffer than the new ones.

Hope this helps you. The devil's always in the details!