Wheels lock up a few feet after shifting from P to D

Great to hear! Glad to be wrong.

 

Yes it did! Happened twice in two years. Both times after burying the truck in deep mud. Both times the drums were loaded with piles of gunk. Cleaned and lubed everything real good and no more problems.

 

another cause with people asking about e-brakes...shouldn't this bracket be protecting the line from rubbing the retaining slot?
Did it slide out of place?

 

If I let the truck sit for a few weeks the driver rear wheel may be totally locked up. I stopped using the parking brake for parking long term in a level spot. The past few days I was doing some brake line work and popped the drums off to adjust if they needed it. I had yet to discover the little access slot in the backing plate. One side seemed easier to get the drum on and off, the other one took some serious persuasion. The first one (passenger) I extended the star screw and the other one I actually shortened the adjuster so I could get it back on.

Today driving it around I would have similar symptoms to the OP. I would drive for a few feet and then the driver rear wheel would almost lock up. Most of the time it would still move a bit, and as others mentioned fiddling with the brake pedal seemed to clear up the issue. This often only happened after parked for a few minutes with the parking brake on. I got it on a jack this afternoon and took the driver drum off to find that there was a buildup of little black fibers at the leading edge of one of the shoes. Seemed like brake pad material I guess. I just sprayed it down with cleaner a few days ago and no sign of this. I adjusted it 5(ish?) clicks shorter and got the drum back on. I then used the window on the other side to increase the star wheel until the drum would not turn. I did not have lug nuts on the drum and when I put some one (sans wheel) the drum could spin. I figured that it was a bit off kilter without the lugs, so perhaps that is better than it was.

I got the wheels back on and there was one bind up on the test drive after using the parking brake, but I could not get it to happen again. What a difference in pedal feel! It is much firmer and feels much safer. I have been living with a mushy pedal for 2.5 years now after I bled the master cylinder dry. I used techstream and everything to try to get all the air out. I also took the drums off and fiddled with the star screws, not aware that it may have contributed to my pedal feel. I always thought that there was more air in the system, but maybe it was just that I needed to adjust the drums all along! Driving a newborn around has refocused me on the problem, and I had a appointment tomorrow with the Dealership to finally get all the air out. I am canceling it to see if setting the drums better will bring back the feeling when I first bought the truck in 2020!

Here is the original thread I started if you want to read through my struggles. https://www.tacomaworld.com/threads/air-in-brake-lines-after-flush.759295/page-2#post-27108636

 

Wait! There’s a dipstick!?

 

There is not, Taxx is a troll that owns a Ford or Chevy

 

Yup, troll for sure. And I do own a Chevy and a Jeep.

You can still pull the plug and look at the fluid.