Good Morning All,

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Well...kinda sorta. You will need to remove the rear wheels. The adjustment is done thru the front side of the brake rotor...assuming someone has not turned the rotors on the hub the wrong way, and has the hole is blocked.
You can also do some adjustment on the cable, but the shoe adjustment really needs to be done first. The cable adjustment is on the cable itself, right smack in the center of the car, underneath.
There MAY be some info here somewhere on doing the adjustment for the p-brake shoes....just need to search for it to see....


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Thanks much Joel. I have a service manual that I was just too lazy to open so I will dive into that this weekend and learn about all the work I didn't really want to have to do for this procedure. I just hope the shoes aren't shot because that will entail even more tear-down fun. Will there be an inspection hole large enough that I can actually see how much lining is left on the shoes or do the drums need to come off for that?

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Not that I can remember.  Also on mine the star adjust was so bad off that I had to replace one of them.  The other one I was able to clean up enough to get it adjusted.  

KC, remember that the parking brake is INSIDE of the rear brake rotors. Innovative design at the time, but a real pita to work on, and they rarely worked well to start with.
The lever used to actually apply the p-brake is just a pivot...not really attached to anything. Talk about cheap....
But yes, the adjustment is made just like a regular drum brake(except the access hole is much smaller)...turn the star adjuster until the rotor is locked, then back it off. Once you get the wheels off, use the lug nuts to hold the rotor tight, and it will not flop around, making it harder to adjust. Once you get both sides adjusted, then you can make an adjustment on the cable.
If you're lucky, someone has already had the rotors off, and the rivets will have been drilled out. If so, you can pull the rotors off and have a look-see at the p-brake shoes, and adjusters....it'll give you a better idea of how to turn the adjustment....


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You can go to Zip and look up their parking break kit and they have a PDF file that shows installation and ADJ