Non self adjusting rear drum brakes on a Dart?

72bluNblu said
Whoa. Those definitely aren’t self adjusting. They look the same as the tapered axle brakes that came on the pre-65 stuff here. But after that they all had self adjusters here in the US anyway. Not sure what they did on the Brazilian stuff.

Those brakes take a fine touch, the shoes have to have good engagement to the drums. There was a tool used to check the arc of the shoes to match the drums. Then you had to adjust them manually until you had them where you wanted them. And then adjust them manually again every 1,000 miles for wear I think is what the manual said. A royal pain.

I figured some items like these drum brakes were obsolete in the US by the time they brought them to Brazil, just curious if they are really earlier mopar or some else. Chrysler in Brazil bought Simca a french auto maker and used their facilities to start making the darts in Brazil back in 1969. They shut down for good in 1982.