Its most likely has something to do with the self adjusting rears. Just
loosen them up from backside of the brake backing plates. Do you a really
long driveway that you back down?

B.

On Sat, Oct 17, 2009 at 8:12 PM, Larry Alofs <lalofs@gmail.com> wrote:

> I had a very similar thing happen with a KIA Sportage recently.
> Turned out that the lining on one of the rear brake shoes had come
> completely loose from the shoe.
>
> Larry A.
>
>
>
>
> On Sat, Oct 17, 2009 at 3:05 PM, C. Chris Snyder
> <ccsvanagon@wmconnect.com> wrote:
> > Hope some one can shed some light on this new problem with rear
> brakes????
> >
> > Yesterday while I was backing out of my drive way, I got halfway down the
> drive and the vans right rear brakes locked-up. I could not move backwards
> any further. I then went forwards and tryed again, same thing! so, I tried
> driving all the way back up my driveway then I tried backing out of my
> driveway again and low-and-behold, no problems. I drove around and
> everything was good. No problems after that. The only diffrence I felt was
> that the brake pedal was and has remained at the top instead of the pedal
> being about halfway down as is usual.
> >
> > The master cylinder is right at the max mark..
> >
> > This is an '87 Wolfburg that has had no brake problems in the past other
> then over a year ago the brakes all the way around were replaced.
> >
> > Hope someone can help narrow this down for me.
> >
> > Thanks in advance.
> >
> > Chris
> >
>