The hold down clip on one parking brake came loose when I went over a speed hump. It made a lot of nice grindy noises and got chewed up real good (as we say in the South). So, I removed the shoes and hardware from that side. Well, I forgot to remove, or otherwise secure, the shoe spreader that's attached to the parking brake cable. I started in for work and got about 3 blocks from the house when it broke loose and caused all kinds of havoc. I completely destroyed the spreader and damaged the dust shield. I've got the shield bent back into place and all the metal bits cleaned out. Now I have no spreader on that side and I'll have to get a new cable and spreader.
Lesson learned.
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