After installing new shoes, the rear drum brakes started making a crunching noise as I braked hard. This crunching goes: crunch crunch crunch as I brake harder and harder. It feels as if something is preventing me from making a smooth brake push. It's not a constant squeal so it sounds like crunching. This happens when both moving and while stopped.
Yes.. before you ask: I took off the drums and inspected this phenomenon. I looked for wear on the parts that would make this metal on metal sound.
It turns out the automatic adjuster has some wear coming from the Pac-Man-like part that you move to get the shoes to go inward to get the drum on. The part then moves as the pistons come out to move the adjuster or what not. I adjusted the thing and put some grease on where the shiny metal was at (the place that was grinding).
Everything was working fine and dandy until about 15 miles later. The same damn thing happens. I think it happens moreso when the brakes are warmed up... then gets worse the more I brake. Wtf is going on? I don't understand...
I have done some hard stops while going backwards to configure the automatic adjuster and the problem has stopped a few times but the problem persists.
Please help me here.
