Rear Drum Brakes Grabbing

[Brad54]

Originally Posted by jbgroby

As stupid as this may sound, I put the rear shoes on backward and they grabbed jusy like you saying. I learned that one shoe is a touch longer than the other and needs to go on in the correct location.

You sure you got that one correct?

This.
I did it on my Suburban, and didn't figure it out for months.

And thousands of miles.
The shoes would grab and drag, the brake fluid would get hot, and pretty soon I'd have a rock-hard pedal.
I'd pull over, bust out the tools, un-screw the self-adjuster in a parking lot, and go until the self-adjuster tightened the shoes up again, a few hundred miles or several weeks later, depending on how much I backed up in that time (activating the self-adjuster).

Once I realized what an idiot I was, that particular problem was solved.

-Brad