Well,gee I thought you asked "so I was looking if someone had done it and had which parts they had to buy. I will try and find out more. " I was just telling you how to go about that task. Your post tacked onto the end of a fairly long discussion made it seem like you were not aware of the previous pages in the thread (that happens every day).

I was trying to help!

There is 10 years worth of posts on this forum, if you just want the last 10 minutes you don't need to search.

I take it that as a Master Mechanic, Technician and Engineer you don't recommend that rear drum brakes be regularly inspected and adjusted if needed?

I do understand that Master Mechanics don't do work on their personal vehicles. Somebody needs to perform at least a minimum preventive maintenance, that include brake inspection.

The reason the adjusters don't work well is that the rear of the car is light and the front brakes are good; so when you back up and apply the brakes not enough weight is transferred to the rear to force the adjuster. Is that over or under engineering?
The engineering fix is to put rear disk brakes on and increase the price of the car by $1000 and lose sales. And then you get the people that don't know how to keep rear disc brakes adjusted.

My personal experience is that if the rears are too tight that causes a shimmy; if they are too loose that causes warped rotors. If the LCA bushings are bad they shimmy. If a hub is bad that causes a shimmy.

That's just my experience with 2 HHRs over 380,000 miles ,or so doing all my own service. I have no degrees or plaques.

 

Have nice day Don!