dwike said:
It doesn't matter how many times I roll backwards and pull the e-brake, it won't give me a good strong ebrake that will hold the truck in place.
Toy E-Brakes aren't Jeep E-Brakes. Backing up and hitting the brakes doesn't adjust the rear brakes. Pulling the E-brake handle is the ONLY thing that adjusts the brakes automatically.
If you have a sucky E-brake... the best thing you can do is use it constantly. Since he put new shoes on you'll have to maually adjust it:
Pull slowly on the little arm the parking brake cable hooks to inside each rear wheel. Do you hear a "CLICK" as it cycles?
If so, keep pulling until there's no more click, because the adjusters are working, and each click expands the shoes about 1/100th of an inch. Just pull on the parking brake cables (or use the e-brake in the dash) over and over and over until it stops clicking.
If there's no click, you need to pull the drums and take a look inside. Clean out the
adjusting mechanism and put it back together. You can learn how to take it all apart
here. Once you have the adjuster mechanism cleaned out working freely... you can expand it until it's hard to fit the drums over the shoes, put the wheel back on, and start yanking the parking brake.
Basically, if you pull on the parking-brake-arm on the rear brake assembly and it makes a little TING! or CLICK!... that shoe needs adjusted. Use your parking brake ALL THE TIME and it won't be a problem.
Hope it helps.