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Hello, my 1989 jeep Comanche long bed that I have, has been dealing with some drum issues going through inspection. I bought the jeep and and it already had what looked to be new shoes around 4 to 5mm of meat on both sides. The drums although I would say have seen better days. My question is, could I sand down the shoes really well and slap a new drum on?(its a Dana 35 rear too I should add). I have heard mixed things on throwing a new drum on somewhat used shoes. Should I give it a shot?

While my Comanche was parked over the course of 2 days I almost completely lost my brakes. The rears are worse than the fronts. The fronts will lock up, I'm not sure the rears are working at all. Parking brake also doesn’t work anymore. Any ideas? It must be both rear brakes as it doesn’t pull while braking. The reservoir was low, but not empty and hasn’t lost any fluid since I topped it off. Can’t see any leaks, brake proportional valve is still installed, but is tied up, and is also not leaking. (When I checked initially, it was down, but brake pressure never increased when putting it back up. None of the lines are leaking up to the master, nor is the master. The brake light on the dashboard is illuminated, but will go out if I pump the brakes. I didn’t want to get pads yet, but if I have to I have to. Don’t really want to drive it like this up to the Cars and Coffee meet. Pedal basically goes to the floor and I have maybe 1/2 of decent brakes. Brakes worked like a dream before this.