98 5 speed manual rolls while parked in gear?

I never found my truck sitting out in the road or several feet from where i parked it before now, I'd have noticed it It's easy to notice it trying to run me over as i'm trying to load my son in the back seat haha

 

haha true that. i was just thinking if i parked my truck came out side and it was moved a couple feet down from my garage i dont know if i would notice

 

That's what I was talking about... I had some friends push me out of my parking spot and get me going down a hill.

 

i did that with my car like a week ago. do you know why it didnt start like a quad/dirtbike would?

because your battery is so dead it wont push fuel through your injectors

 

Yeah I've noticed it'll work when the battery isn't totally dead... as in the starter will try but just clicks. I figured it was either fuel pump not firing up or injectors. This was even beyond jumpstarting... Had to get a charger and just leave it for like a day.

 

on my truck, the brakes self-adjust when I pull the parking brake handle. on some vehicles, braking in reverse does the same thing. There is no need for you to tear anything apart. Jack up the rear wheels, get under the truck and look on the backing plate behind the wheel. On the lower section, there should be an oblong rubber plug. If you remove this and look inside, you will see a wheel with teeth on it. This is the adjusting wheel for the drum brakes. Rotate this until just before you feel a drag on the spinning wheel and you are good to go.

 

lol mine wouldnt even hold a charge with jumper cables, or a charger hooked to it for 3 days. had to get a new battery

 

Except for toyota adjusters are on top right below the wheel cylinders. the rubber plug will be directly below the bleeder screw and brake line connection, offset a bit to one side of the backing plate. While this is one way to adjust it, it's not the best way.

Shoes require adjustment when either the shoes wear or the drum wears or both. A lot of aftermarket shoes are more abrasive than the OE shoes and will wear the drum...if you keep adjusting it though the service hole in the backing plate, it'll be a bitch to get the drums back off when the shoes do need to be replaced...you'll have to go through that same hole with 2 little screwdrivers to hold the lock lever off the star wheel and un-adjust the shoes to clear the lip on the drum so you can remove the drum.

Just pull the wheels and pull the drum off, use the opportunity to peel back the boots on the wheel cylinder to check for leaks, inspect the shoe lining thickness, measure the drum, and if the shoes have worn into the drum leaving any kind of a lip on the backside of it, measure the drums to make sure they're not oversized. If they're still within spec, take them somewhere and have the lip machined off of them, or do it with a grinder (just try to stay out of the actual friction surface of the drum as much as possible). Also while you're in there, pry the shoes away from the backing plate a bit and put some grease on the contact points (3 for each shoe) on the backing plate. Then adjust them up close, put the drum back on, finish adjusting through the service hole in the backing plate, and you're done.

 

I can guarantee you this is not true. On a steep hill, a car can just start to roll away. It will be very jerky because the engine is turning over and going against the compression, but depending on the car and hill, it can start moving by itself, and actually accelerate.

Things that would help prevent this are lower gearing, larger engine displacement, higher compression, more driveline friction (fwd vs rwd vs awd)