Rear brake drum adjuster????

[Bluey]

ok, i've just bought '85 cruiser middy, meant to over pits today but had some troubles this morning:

reversed out of garaged went about 2 car lengths then came to stop. felt like started to go over big rock or something. nothing under car. rolled forward all good, reverse and does it again. drove forward into garage and no problems, reverse and comes to stop again. try to continue but stalled.

stuff around some more then pull out jack, turns out rear left wheel locked solid. brakes seized. wasn't handbrake as cable still loose. bled brake a bit but wheel still wouldnt turn. pulled wheel off but couldnt get drum off.....(after work now)....eventually prise wheel off, had to back off adjuster bolt thru back of drum, both brake shoes were jam hard onto drum. wound adjuster about 2 turns which pulled shoes together, able to put drum back on and now will spin. wheel back on, go for test drive all working fine.

ok, so now my car works again, but can anyone explain why adjuster would be so far out to cause shoes to jam wheel, when was working perfectly the day before????

i need some sort of reasonable explanation (i cant think of one) so dont have to worry this sort of bullshit happens again.

thanks in advance
Lance

[dumbdunce]

spooky. are you sure there wasn't a bit of gravel or something stuck in that drum? one of the springs broken/disconnected? dried mund in there?

I can't see why otherwise working brakes would do this.

[Bluey]

think was small amount of dried mud, don't think gravel. the bugger was locked solid, had to wind in adjuster fair way to get brake drum off. but worked forwards. spooky as you say.

oh well, still working so will just leave. thanks dumbdunce

[MUSS]

ok, i've just bought '85 cruiser middy, meant to over pits today but had some troubles this morning:

reversed out of garaged went about 2 car lengths then came to stop. felt like started to go over big rock or something. nothing under car. rolled forward all good, reverse and does it again. drove forward into garage and no problems, reverse and comes to stop again. try to continue but stalled.

stuff around some more then pull out jack, turns out rear left wheel locked solid. brakes seized. wasn't handbrake as cable still loose. bled brake a bit but wheel still wouldnt turn. pulled wheel off but couldnt get drum off.....(after work now)....eventually prise wheel off, had to back off adjuster bolt thru back of drum, both brake shoes were jam hard onto drum. wound adjuster about 2 turns which pulled shoes together, able to put drum back on and now will spin. wheel back on, go for test drive all working fine.

ok, so now my car works again, but can anyone explain why adjuster would be so far out to cause shoes to jam wheel, when was working perfectly the day before????

i need some sort of reasonable explanation (i cant think of one) so dont have to worry this sort of bullshit happens again.

thanks in advance
Lance

fark im stumped too lance freakish BOO..... ARGH!!!!!

[ORSM45]

a mate had a XD ute he had no respect for, when riding in it you would hear this gut wrenching grinding sound. he says yeah i think i need new disk pads. they ground the disks (metal on metal) so that one direction was smooth and had no resistance (forward). but in reverse was a different story. because the brakes were jagged facing towards the reverse direction. they grabbed what was left of the brake pad, meaning the wheels were jammed. he tried to back out of his driveway, all he was doing was smoking up the rear wheels. at this time he thought it would be a good idea to get new pads (and rotors)

dunno if the same theory applies to your situation.
its funny to have half arsed friends like that.

[Bluey]

a mate had a XD ute he had no respect for, when riding in it you would hear this gut wrenching grinding sound. he says yeah i think i need new disk pads. they ground the disks (metal on metal) so that one direction was smooth and had no resistance (forward). but in reverse was a different story. because the brakes were jagged facing towards the reverse direction. they grabbed what was left of the brake pad, meaning the wheels were jammed. he tried to back out of his driveway, all he was doing was smoking up the rear wheels. at this time he thought it would be a good idea to get new pads (and rotors)

dunno if the same theory applies to your situation.
its funny to have half arsed friends like that.

sounds like the car was, um, dodgy sounds like a pluasible reason, but not in this case. shoes and drum quite good nick, very small amount dirt. heaps of brake shoe left. btw, where do you get rubber grommits that go missing slowly as the car gets older, like the ones covering holes in chassis rails and hole back of drum where get to adjuster ???

just pulled springs out of lux ready to sell it, i reckon there was 1/2 kg of dried mud in each rear brake.