Tell your friend to pull his parking brake on hard and off again about
50 times, while stopped. That may help quite a bit.

Mark

Jack R. wrote:
> Our friend limped home from London Ontario to N. of Detroit, soft pedal and
> all.  Didn't seem to improve, so I suspect that there was some damage.  They
> were original rear drums, as the van only has 60,000 original miles on it.
> The rears were probably due for replacement anyway.
>
> Thanks for the cool suggestion however!
>
> Jack R.
>