I decided this would be a good time to replace that broken parking brake cable, since the interior is already torn apart.
I got the rear end up in the air and removed the wheel. Flaked off some more undercoating and gave it a quick shot of paint.
I couldn’t get the brake drum off and realized I was going to have to adjust the shoes in. My hands were getting wet with brake fluid as I was feeling around on the back side of the drum to remove the parking brake cable, . Poking my head around to take a look, I saw that it was super cruddy back there. I just rebuilt this brake a couple hundred miles ago!
Let’s not rush into this…
OK, back at it! I had to adjust the brakes in quite a bit to get the drum off. There is a good sized lip around the outside edge. The little T-shaped push pin thing that connects to the spring and cap was gone.
Who even knew that was possible.
I’m all out of brake parts cleaner spray and don’t feel like heading back out to the store today, so I grabbed a new T shaped pin from the front brakes hardware kit I have waiting, wiped everything down, and put it all back together.
Getting that brake shoe locked back in place should fix the parking brake problem. Turns out it wasn’t the cable after all.
