Re: Rear brake woes
You have to spread the shoes apart to turn the cam around. Taking the springs off helps a lot but they are hard to put back on with the emergency shoes in place. The cam just pivots in the hole. If it is hard to turn then it may not be sliding well enough and should be removed to clean it up and to put a small amount of grease on it.
Regarding the adjustment. The screw is a right hand thread and unscrewing (counterclockwise) it from the back of the backing plate will make the adjustment retracted. If viewed from the shoe side of the backing plate then the direction would be clockwise. If this is confusing then just observe the shoes being retracted when turning the adjustment.
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