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Well just wanted to report some progress on my '71 squareback. The rear brake adjusting stars would never move(since I got it) and the emergency brake never really seemed to grab well, unless I really cranked on it. So today I took the rear drums off, looked at the adjusting stars, and they were either rusted in their holes, or the adjusting bolt was rusted to it. So a lot of penetrating lubricant later, everything freed. I put some wheel bearing grease in the hole that the star thing goes in, and some anti-seize on the threads of the bolt that goes in the adjusting star thing. Two things I noticed- 1)on the drivers side there was only one bolt holding the drum on(as opposed to two), and most of the three remaining bolts, two of the heads were pretty mangled. So I replaced all four with bolts from the hardware store, with a regular head, so I can take them off with a socket set, instead of needing an allen wrench. 2)on the drivers side the springs that hold the brake shoe on.their was only a retaining washer on the outside, and on the passenger side there were two, one on either side of the spring. I couldn't fathom why one way would work better than the other-so I reinstalled as taken apart. After all the work-approximately 5 hours(too long, but that included a trip to the hardware store, and also trying to fix the phone wiring on my house, as my downstairs neighbor was complaining of static) -kevin '65 kombi '71 squareback Somerville, ma ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ List info at http://www.vwtype3.org/list | mailto:gregm@vwtype3.org