Bedding in rear brakes with wheels off the ground

[Gt6s]

Slowdown wrote:

If you ease the drums away from the backplate you can just get a screwdriver in the gap to click the adjuster round.

Dolomite 1500 drums go straight onto a late mk 3 Gt6 but have two holes on them to get a screwdriver at the auto adjuster

[Pete Lewis]

to set the rear manual adjusters to operate correctly you need to disconnect the cable at the wheel cylinder clevis, then lock up the adjuster hard to centralise the shoes and fully retract the wheel cylinder
get a jack and lift the hubs to road  ride height or close to it. (if the axles hang the cable will tighten as you drop it to deck leve land partially open the shoes)
now connect the cable to just take the clevis without tension,
then back of the  ajuster to free the drum.
grease up all the cable slides and make sure the  centre relay lever is positioned and angled as per the manual

Pete

[Slowdown]

Only problem,Pete, is that he's got those crappy self-adjusting rear brakes, so no manual adjuster to play with.