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Originally Posted by Tcoat
If the handbrake was on and unable to spin what are you trying to adjust?
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I was trying to adjust (expand) the diameter of the drum brake pads inside the rotor using the star adjuster – which I am aware needs to be done with the handbrake disengaged.
This is the order of operations as I had laid out in my head:
1) park the car with the handbrake engaged because I am working on a sloped driveway
2) put on gloves
3) jack up the car
4) remove rear wheels
5) remove the rubber plug on the two rear rotor that covers up the hole used to reach the star adjuster
6) remove gloves (I am a stickler for clean interiors)
7) disengage the handbrake
8) adjust the star adjuster
Due to me not being aware that I may need to / could spin the rotor for the access hole to line up with the star adjuster, once I completed step 5 and saw the hole not being lined up with the star adjuster, I just went “argh, fuck.” and put the wheels back on without fiddling any further. So the thought of touching (releasing) the handbrake didn't even cross my mind as I still had my dirty gloves on.
I had the incorrect impression the star adjuster would be spinning in tandem with the rotor and whether the holes in the rotor lined up with the star adjuster or not was determined by the orientation of the rotor when sliding them onto the studs.