Brake pedal not returning

[fantum]

It's been a while since I had drum brakes, but I seem to recall that I had to drive backward and hit the brakes to get the brakes "adjusted."  Sometimes it took a few stops to get them to work right.  Who knows, it may help you.

[wiging19]

My 69 charger has factory disc brakes and stops really well.  Our 70 chally has manual drum brakes and also stops fairly well too, however, they do have a different feel than other brakes.  I think stopping also has a lot to do with the material used for the shoes.

I had a drums on my convertible and the car would slide on the road when I did hard breaking.  So I put disc brakes on it.  First bought a conversion type (slider) and was happy with them.  Then changed over to a pin brake system that was similar to what the cars that had disc had in them originally.  I upgraded to the 11.75 disc setup though.  I grew up with cars that had failing brakes all the time so I am very picky about how the brakes feel.  The only difference between the slider type and the pin is the brakes wear more evenly with the pin style.  I really liked how they stopped in contrast to the drums.  To me it was a pretty big difference.   On the other had I pretty much went through the suspension replacing everything and added sway bars front/back so you would expect a big difference in handling.