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It also appears that the shoes are reversed. The primary shoe-the one with the shorter lining, always goes toward the front of the vehicle. In the video, it looks like he has both primary shoes on the same side.
X2 on look at all 4 shoes and make sure you have 2 and 2 and not 2 that match on the same side. Pic is R/H rear out of my saved folder. Yes your blue lower spring is on backwards. Short end hooks in the shoe, long piece to the brake adjuster bracket.
Yeah, as others said, blue spring needs a flip to get it's coils away from adjustment lever ... and with drums, short shoe always to front. In operation, the front most shoe is pushed out against the rotating drum surface and this tries to turn it downward where it pushes against the adjuster and the adjuster is pushed against the rear most, longer shoe up against the anchor pin where the "buck stops" The longer rear shoe is forced into a wedging action against that pin and with the other shoe pushing it, it wears faster against the drum, so it always gets the longer lining since it gets wedged tighter. Drum brakes have a property of "self energising" as a result. Usually the steel part of the two shoes is the same, they just line the one shoe with longer, one with shorter ... linings
I am noticing that the blue spring fits into the shoe kind of weird. The hook is an odd shape to fit in that hole in the shoe. Am I supposed to reshape the hook? I think that's why I flipped it around originally--it seemed to fit better that way....
The left side adjuster comes down a little too far which doesn't stop the star wheel from turning the opposite direction. Has anyone heard of the adjuster cable being too long?
The cable pulls up when the brakes apply in reversing direction, whether you back it up or just let it roll before stomping on the brake, then when you let up on the brake it's then the blue spring pulls the arm down to move the star wheel a tooth. You adjust the brakes manually, I do, so there is a light rubbing sound as the drum turns ... then after that the self adjusters just at most adjust in little 1 tooth adjustments during everyday driving. The self adjusters are not intended to adjust initial set up. That rear shoe will be pulled away from the anchor, the cable stays, and that action pull upward on the arm. Once there is no excess room for mor adjustment, then there is not enough movement to pull up on the arm, so adjustment stops until wear allows enough room to work again. It's self adjusting and self stopping.
