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Originally Posted by Cheyenne Supr
..... I had already loosened up the cylinder bleed screw and pushed the rods all the way in, bled the lines, assembled and drove the vehicle, but the shoes locked up on the drum and would not release...I could barely get the drum off. I figured I had gunk in the brake lines and tried to vacuum bleed the system with 25 lbs of pressure, but I could barely draw any brake fluid so I knew something was wrong with my lines. At that point I began to take off lines one at a time and blow them out with 90 psi air pressure. What I found was the rubber brake hose at the passenger rear wheel had collapsed inside and was acting as sort of a check valve. It would let a very small amount of fluid out to the shoes, but nothing could return back through so the shoes would not release. The hose looked fine outside, but was almost completely plugged inside....
Larry
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That's a fairly common problem and it has happened to me before. But the culprit, in my case, was the rubber brake hose that's on top of the rear axle.
What's confusing in your case, and the reason no one suggested the hoses, is that you had loosened the brake cylinder bleed screw. That should have easily seated the shoes...
