Rear brake pedal is "kicking back". Solutions?

[alexdecker]

Hey all

Since assembling my bike after going through the engine last year, the rear brake has sorta kicked back a little bit. It feels like there is some unevenness in the rear brake. I assume that the rear wheel might be mounted slightly crooked or there is some other thing that is off. Just not sure what.

Is this a common problem? It was fine before I took it apart, so don't think the brake pads (which are fairly new) is uneven. But maybe already?

[peterengland]

mine was the same after I fitted new rear shoes. Just braked hard a few times from speed and ran about for a minute with the rear brake on a bit, the kicking back/juddering disappeared and has been fine since.

[Bryanj]

Its a known fault for the rear drum to crack and distort, either another wheel with good hub or have the hub machined and relined

[McCabe-Thiele (Ted)]

Bryan is right in what he says, that said if they were okay before dismantling might just be some new bedding in is required especially if you removed the brake shoes from the hub
 

[alexdecker]

I removed the entire rear wheel, but didn't dismantle it at all. So the only thing that can be different (to my knowledge) is how the wheel is mounted, and how the brake arm is mounted. Is that wrong thinking?

[McCabe-Thiele (Ted)]

Depending on how it's been stored some surface rust inside to consider.