Originally Posted by topside
Back in the day, we used to "arc" the shoes so they made full contact with the drums.
New shoes mostly just made contact at their leading & trailing edges unless that was done.
That said, you'd probably notice poor braking performance in general without full contact.
Other than that, the parking brake is pretty much just cable & hardware.

Yeah, but that was usually done after turning the drum. I thought of that, but with new shoes and new drums they should match, it looked ok when I set the shoes in the drum.
Honestly the brakes aren't all that and a bag of chips anyway, but they are not horrible. I may drive it awhile then get the rear wheels off the ground and see how well the service brakes hold it.

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