Hi all:

Turns out the noise was the result of a defective brake drum.  I was
convinced that the drum (new, from one of the online vendors) had to be out
of round given the pedal pulsation I felt when I applied the brakes, but
measuring the inside of the drum with an inside micrometer didn't bear this
out.  After putting on and taking off the drum a half-a-dozen times, trying
various adjustments of the shoes, lot's of head scratching, etc., I finally
saw that the hole in the middle of the drum - the one the axle stub passes
through - was mis-shaped!

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Tom Young                        '81 Vanagon
Lafayette, CA 94549          '82 Westfalia
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