[rear wheel creak, post-brake work (1st gen)]

This is probably obvious to anyone with experience, but searching the forum for "wheel noise" seems to be useless.

I had my 64 on jackstands for about a month as I was replacing all the wheel cylinders and some other assorted stuff, mostly on the front end. Since then, I've got a pretty obtrusive creaking (not squeaking) coming from both of the rear wheels. Er-err, er-err, kind of like an old mattress or sth... one "er-err" cycle = one wheel revolution; so it obviously speeds up as the car does. Makes the noise only under load, of course. Has nothing to do with breaking.

On the rear wheels, I replaced the cylinders and hold-down springs and cleaned things up, that's all.

Any ideas much appreciated!

nick

[First gen rear drum brake springs]

Ah ha, mystery solved, including for the hold-down springs: on my car at some point s.o. removed the adjuster arms. So on the rear, I don't have that little adjuster-arm wire thingy that the blue spring attaches to. And then the shorter hold-down spring obviously goes on the shoe w/the adjuster arm. At least I know where I stand. Thanks Mark. Beautiful work, BTW.

[First gen rear drum brake springs]

correction: long RED ones are like the ones I took off.

[First gen rear drum brake springs]

Hello all,

Renewing my brake springs while I'm in there doing the wheel cylinders. The kit I got from the local supplier looks fine for the front, but for the rear, contains different length shoe return springs, whereas the ones I took off were identical. In the photo of my new kit, it's the long blue ones that match the old ones. I note that the set that CARS stocks seems to be the same as the one I bought. So: one length fore, one aft? Buy another kit so as to get another pair of long ones? Also, while we're at it, why are there 2 different length hold-down springs??

Any pointers appreciated!