The brakes on my 95 SW1 were feeling a bit low, so while rotating the tires this weekend I pulled the drums to take a look.
The shoes looked good, but I noticed the following: On each brake backing plate is a slot on one side to allow one to reach in with a brake adjusting tool to spin the star wheel. However, on each side the starwheel expander was installed with the starwheel on the OTHER side, as if the expander was simply installed backwards. But along with the starwheel is the hardware which attaches to the shoe to flip the notches on the wheel when the automatic adjuster does it's thing. According to the picture in the Haynes manual, the hardware is installed correctly. (One can tell in the pictures that the wheel shown is the driver side due to the suspension parts.
It seems to me that the backing plates must be on the wrong side respectively.
Has anyone else run into this?
-David