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15 years ago
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Your rear brake shoe adjusters have stopped adjusting themselves. The squeak you hear is the 'travel' of the show rubbing on the backing plate. You are wearing out your brake system at an accelerated rate because everything is going out of adjustment.
You need to find a shop that will thoroughly clean and LUBRICATE the mechanism inside. Don't let them sell you shoes because they often last forever (unless they can show that they are truly worn out). There's something like 13 lubrication points inside each rear brake. Read through this thread to understand the process:
'Curly'