Reassembling my 11 inch front power drums on my 69 R/T. Am putting new brake shoes on and have opened the brakes system at the brake hose (rebuilt the front end). The drum on the drivers side feels good (shoe barely dragging on drum; didn't have to expand the adjuster), but the passengers side drum fits VERY tight. I can get it on barely, but can't turn it once in place at all (didn't put the outside wheel bearing in as I was scared I may not get the drum back off if it seated too far). I have not bled the system yet (was next step)... the star adjuster is not expanded at all (it's at its minimal length) and the wheel cylinder is fully compressed (the shoes are all the way up against the top center post so the shoe diameter can't get any "smaller" to buy more room for the drum. What's the trick here? Picture attached in case I messed assembly up (pretty confident i didn't).

TIA

7202880-drum.jpg (73 downloads)