Remove rear brake drums and file a chamfer on each end of the shoes. You may have to remove the brakes shoes to file them.
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My Mk3 Cavalier used to do this with the first two sets of rear brake shoes, but funnily not the last set which don't squeal or produce anywhere near as much brake dust as the old sets. Some wet winter days I would have to rev the engine quite a lot just to get one or other of the rear brakes to disengage when pulling away - usually with a moderate bang. After that the handbrake worked fine until the next wet overnight park up.
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Quite likely to be the handbrake cables themselves. The outer plastic sleeve cracks where the cables flex & let in the salty winter spray off the road. The inner cable then corrodes up & sticks, new cables will then be required.
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A standard fault with these Bendix drum brakes is that the handbrake lever in the drum, attached to the cable, seizes at the pivot in the web of the trailing shoe. The shoes need to be taken out, and this pivot freed and lubricated with high temperature copper grease, for proper operation to be restored.
There is a rather nasty star type retaining clip which should be replaced, and is supplied with new sets of shoes. Genuine Bendix shoes are about £14 a set from GSF.
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Agree with 659FBE. I replaced the brakes shoes at about 75K miles on our AX because I couldn't free the pivot on the nearside set. The cables, however, looked immaculate.
Hawkeye
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