The last few times backed out and reparked in the garage there has been a bit of brake drag, so it was one of those jobs I put on the back burner as she wasn't clocking up many miles lately.
Soon discovered it was the rear brakes, further investigation identified the hand brake on the drivers side.
The problem was the handbrake was not evenly adjusted on both rear wheels, and the last few times I adjusted the hand brake I was bringing the drivers side closer to the drum while the passenger side was only partially engaging, and today it grabbed and would not move.
Luckily for me it was in the garage.
Once into the job it was an easy fix.
Off came the hub cap and then the wheel using a wheel puller, in went the trolley jack and a pair of axles stands.
Made the most of having the wheel off and gave both inner and outer brake bands a clean and rough up and used emery to deglaze the brake drum.
Cleaned up a bit of surface rust from the axle taper and checked the axle key and key way at the same time.
You can see on the bottom right hand side of the picture that the inner brake band has not fully returned to the stop.
After disconnecting the brake rod from the rear axle the brake band easily returned to the stop.
Then it was just a matter of lengthening the brake rod so that the hand brake was working evenly on both sides, with no drag when hand brake released, and both wheels locked up when handbrake fully on
Test drive, all was well, and best handbrake I have had for some time.
Lesson learned is "Make sure the handbrake is adjusted evenly on both wheels.
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