Strouty
Newbie
I am working on a 1996 full float 14 bolt, it is single rear wheel on a Burb, has the slide on drums. When I redid the brakes I put the larger shoe to the rear with the parking brake, drove it for a while, adjusted the brakes up, then had nothing but issues after that, turned into brakes dragging hard. I backed the brakes off completely, readjusted and things were OK for another month, then adjusted them again, same issue only worse. In the end the drums took too much heat and they had a out of round issue so now I installed all new AC Delco everything, even replaced the adjusters (also confirmed left and right were correct). I now have one side that seems to tighten up on the adjuster properly, but the other side grabs the shoes and locks the drum up tight well before the adjuster gets tight. I am pulling my hair out at this point, the GM service manual is about as vague as possible when it comes to the two different shoes, they just say to install the one with the parking brake lever to the rear, well you can install the lever on either shoe? I didn't get any pictures tonight, I will have to get them tomorrow morning. I have looked at a few write ups on this forum and I didn't see where anyone spelled out the difference in shoes. Thanks for any input, I am going to swap shoes and see if that changes anything, that is my next move.