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At 06:00 PM 6/28/99 +0100, you wrote: >The drums have 2 leading shoes on each wheel; that means when the brakes >are applied, the cylinder pusBيطéend of the shoe that digs into the >drum as it is passing (ie the top of the front shoe and the bottom of the >rear shoe). Could be the right side is operating correctly and the left >isn't. Maybe a bit more rust formed on the right-hand one and it grabbed >more. Did the problem continue after driving it a bit? > Dave, Actually, the brakes worked fine for a week or so -- the best they ever worked. Then this past Saturday morning, I pulled out the Variant and noticed that the car started jerking to the right when I applied the brakes. Now, when I coast down our long, steep driveway and apply the brakes, the right front wheel seems to want to lock up. It never did that before and hardly seems that that is the way the brakes should be. That is why I feel that there is something wrong with the right wheel rather than the left. John ------------------------------------------------------------------- Search old messages on the Web! Visit http://www.vwtype3.org/list/