I "adjusted" the rear brakes on my Daughters 61 Bev/Fury by bolting in a 70 E body drum rear end, problem solved...you think the rear are a PITA, wait until you think you got the front squared away and go out for a drive, after the umpteen adjustment, and seeing how archaic the systems performance is, a front disc swap/rear end swap will be in order
Mike
My 51 still sports the stock brakes, stops straight and true with a nice firm pedal and can lock them all up. Not really all that difficult to adjust them. Granted they aren't the centerplane type like the OP's, but an even more primitive and tedious to adjust setup than his though.
