I'm away from home, so forgive me if I post something assinine. Nothing to refrence.

Driving I hear a fair amount of ticking, felt resistance to accelleration, and strong resistance to reversing. Once or twice, a very loud snapping sound from the rear. Got to a friend's house, and have the car on jacks. Lots of resistance to turning the rear wheels by hand, and a grinding sound from the brake. I can't discern the sound from the disk or the drum, but my feeling is that it's the drum. I tried to back off on the adjusters thinking maybe the e-brake was binding, and the adjuster is gone on the driver's side. So is the upper retaining spring. With the screwdriver, I can pull something forwards towards the hub. There's a ton of grease inside the driver's side, the passenger's is dry. The driver's side wheel cannot be hand-turned backwards.

I noticed the driveshaft was turning as I was doing this, so I tried turning that by hand too. I got forward on both wheels w/ the gearbox in N, reverse on only the passenger side. Cool.

So I'm ditching the car for now. No Coastal tour for the Mumblin' Stumblin' Grumbler.

When I get back I'd like to pull the hub and get at the e-brake. What do I need, anything special or just a standard puller? Further information is: Girling calipers, later-style e-brake with lower cable connection. Low brake pads.

So please, advice is keenly needed. I'm *this* close to getting a 71 Citroen, becasue there just isn't enough frustration in my life. That's the trouble with Zombie cars I guess...

As always, I can never thank you guys enough.
-Sean
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1966 122s; 1970 142s