[Nick_R_23]

Okay, I’m back at this again. Still can’t get the brakes to work. So far, I’ve gone as far as having adjusted the brakes so that the shoes drag heavily (wheel takes significant effort to turn by hand), but the pedal still won’t stop the wheel from turning even with the brakes fully applied. However, the parking brake functions beautifully. My observation is that the rear trailing shoe will adjust to the drum. The front shoe always retains a gap between the shoe and drum unless the parking brake is applied. My conclusion seems to be that the drum and front shoe have proper contact, but for some reason the wheel cylinder is only applying pressure to the rear shoe, or possibly not at all. I don’t have a way to check actual pressure seen at the wheel cylinder, other than the fact that the pressure seems to be adequate during bleeding. How can I have pressure at a wheel cylinder and still have no brakes?