Please help me troubleshoot brake issues :)

[Yo-Yo]

Hi, yeah I had the stock booster reco'd

 

rear drums I adjusted the adjustment wheel until I felt resistance from the shoes touching the drum, then I reversed the adjustment wheel almost a full turn back. With the car jacked up and the handbrake off if I spun the wheels with force they would spin about 1.5 revolution before they settled to a stop.

[zeds4ever]

 

 

  So obviously you had the drums machined & fitted new shoe's ,correct ?. The reason I ask this is that with the larger booster if you had not done any of the aforementioned things this could probably cause the lock up situation in the back end. As if the drums are out of round they can cause a different reaction under braking. Methinks.

 

                                                          Regards: Alan.

[Yo-Yo]

had the front discs machined and changed pads, flushed the system to make sure no air.

rear drums were fine after I fixed up my prior mishap, the shoes still have plenty of meat on them & I adjusted it according to the backing plate guides.

Even so the 280zx booster still would make the rears bite too harsh. for eg. I could be braking from 50km/h and even at that speed not even slamming on the brakes the rear tyres would chirp, at worst it would want to fishtail even under dry conditions

 

Once I got the stock booster reconditioned & refitted it was braking normally, passed rego with flying colours 

[zeds4ever]

 

 

                                                                                Good to hear mate.

 

                                                                                Regards: Alan.