Hello everyone,

First time writing on here, after looking almost everywhere. I need some help.

I have a very "weird" issue concerning my rear brake shoes and drums. Today I changed the rear brake shoes using the "other side as reference" method. Slackened the e-brake cable before starting, all went pretty well and decent.

After that, I returned the drums on, checked for binding and how the drum rotated, all seemed fine. However, after I returned the wheel locating studs into the drum, the drum became harder and harder to turn.

This only happened on the driver's side rear wheel. The passenger side is perfectly fine.

Does anyone have any idea why this is happening?
Did I do something wrong? Did I install something wrong?
I even tried taking of the drum and bolting the locating studs into the hub, to check if maybe the studs were rubbing against something, but no.

Any help or suggestion would be highly appreciated....

EDIT: The car is MK1 Punto '99 with rear "lockhead" brake shoes.

Did you remember to slacken off the self-adjustment cams? Poke the cam with a small screwdriver, it will spring away because of the small spring that's in there. If the cam is even just a few teeth engaged it will be spreading the shoes enough to stop a brake drum from turning freely. When fitting new shoes on my 1994 Punto 55 I always put the drums in the lathe and skim off the wear ridge, makes assembly of new shoes a little easier. Last time however I bought new drums, old worn drums and new shoes are a very poor fit and give poor braking. The maximum permissible diameter is cast into the drum, it's a limit worth taking notice of.