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Originally Posted by cheese country GP
Your brake adjustment is too tight. Adjusting 8 lug drums is done differently than the typical 5 bolt hubs. Spin the wheel till it drags, then back off 10-12 clicks. The aluminum hubs swell with heat & if they are adjusted too tight the drum will heat up & the car will pull to that side. I had the same problem with my '62 GP & this system stopped that problem.
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It was adjusted very loose, pedal getting too low, loose. I was going to let the auto adjusters pull it tighter and get the pedal up a bit.
And actually, it would work the other way around. Too much heat in the aluminum drum, or any drum, would cause it to expand away from the brake shoes, hence, brake fade. I had just a bit of drag, but after driving and that drum getting that hot, no drag at all when I got home, put it up in the air and spun that wheel.