# Sticky rear drum brakes

**URL:** <https://community.cartalk.com/t/sticky-rear-drum-brakes/19805>\
**Category:** Maintenance/Repairs\
**Created:** [September 20, 2008, 5:46pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/sticky-rear-drum-brakes/19805 "2008-09-20T17:46:41Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![cyberdan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f4b2a3/32.png) [@cyberdan](https://community.cartalk.com/u/cyberdan)\
**Post date:** [September 20, 2008, 5:46pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/sticky-rear-drum-brakes/19805/1 "2008-09-20T17:46:41Z")

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I have a 1996 Pontiac Grand Am SE that has a rear brake sticking problem. When this happens, as I pull away from a stop, the back end of the car raises slightly until the brake releases with a banging noise. It is intermittent and is predominantly the left brake that hangs. It is also temperature sensitive. It has rarely done this in the winter (I live in Minnesota).  
  
  
  
 I have replaced the brakes - shoes, drums, and hardware and it has made no difference. (I did a thorough cleaning of everything at that time and several times since. Sometimes but not always, after I adjust the brakes up, they work for a couple days, but then right back to it.

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**Author:** ![oldschool](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/e19adc/32.png) [@oldschool](https://community.cartalk.com/u/oldschool)\
**Post date:** [September 20, 2008, 7:40pm UTC](https://community.cartalk.com/t/sticky-rear-drum-brakes/19805/2 "2008-09-20T19:40:16Z")

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Along with cleaning are you lubing the proper places? and with what?  
You say rear drums,any ridges on the backing plates,do you have a long shoe short shoe position to follow?  
I am suspect of parking brake cables in a Mid-West environment.