Could be. If the shoes are way more work on one side than the other,
or if one side is way more out of adjustment than the other, or if
either were ever so and the PO decided to take up the slack in the
forward adjustment, then the equalizer could be cockeyed. I would
start by jacking up the wheels, popping the little rubber cover off
the adjuster hole in the backing plate, and go to town with a
flat-bladed screwdriver until you can't turn the wheel by hand, and
then back off until you can. Then you know the rear brakes are equal.
Then check the equalizer again, and if it is cockeyed, make the
necessary adjustment there. Then you will know things are right, or as
much as they can be without starting from new drums and shoes.

Jim

On Sat, Jul 10, 2010 at 12:22 PM, Mike "Rocket J Squirrel"
<camping.elliott@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm looking at Bentley's and what I see is the top photo on 46.9 which
> looks like there has been some disassembly done, using more than a
> screwdriver, it seems. Am I not seeing the e-z way to adjust the brakes?
>
> And, is adjusting the brakes how one gets that equalizer piece uncockeyed?
>
> --
> Rocky J Squirrel
> 84 Westfalia: Mellow Yellow ("The Electrical Banana")
> 74 Westrailia: (Ladybug Trailer company, San Juan Capistrano, Calif.)
> Bend, OR
> KG6RCR
>
>
>
> Jay lefstein wrote:
>>
>> you don't have a �small / med flat screw driver? thats all it takes ;)
>> On 10-Jul-10, at 9:59 AM, Mike Rocket J Squirrel wrote:
>>
>>> Given that my parking brake doesn't do a whole lot, I climbed under the
>>> van to take some slack out of the linkage. I stopped when I saw that the
>>> equalizer (Bentleys 46.11) is at quite an angle, not at a right angle to
>>> the centerline of the van as I expected. I'm not sure what this means. I
>>> don't have the tools to adjust the brakes.
>>>
>>> --
>>> Rocky J Squirrel
>>> 84 Westfalia: Mellow Yellow ("The Electrical Banana")
>>> 74 Westrailia: (Ladybug Trailer company, San Juan Capistrano, Calif.)
>>> Bend, OR
>>> KG6RCR
>>
>