New shoes in the rear and you may find you dont need to bleed the brakes. You have to back the brakes off on the rear and remove the drum. The rest is pretty easy to work out. Make sure you dont over flow the resevoir on the master cylinder as new shoes will push the slave cylinders in and so the fluid will be pushed back into the resevoir.
You probably need to check the drums are not worn out and give all the brake mechanism a good clean.
Check your book on how to back the brakes off. You can get a cheap tool to get to the adjuster more easily.
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Brake bleeding will be easier with two people. One person pumps the brake pedal and then holds it depressed. The other mug gets to undo the bleed screw and let some fluid out then re tighten the bleed screw. Keep doing this until air bubbles stop coming out and new fluid appears. Keep the resovoir topped up. If you dont keep the pressure on the brake pedal until the bleed screw is tightened it will just suck air back into the system. Same goes if you let the resovoir get too low. Push a bit of hose over the bleed screw and catch the old fluid in a jar to save on mess and wash any spilt fluid off with water straight away. Throw the old fluid away.
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You can get a one man setup to hook onto the bleed screw, but do it the manual way so you know exactly what is happening the first time you do it.
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