This one happens to be an 85 es.
I rarely get out of 2nd gear but can only imagine if this happened any faster.
My daily driver, babied but work it with trailers and hills etc etc.
Heading towards the road to cross the front yard, pinky pull on front brake, slowed lightly
as it always had and then locked up dead stop rotation but the trike slid on the gravel / ice Almost into the road.
I'm guessing that one of the shoe linings has separated and gets trapped between the next one
and the drum.
Autopsy started but I have the dreaded olympic frozen front axle event in process.
I guess worst case is to rotate fork as the 4 10mm cap did come off without breaking, so that's
something to be thankful for.
oh, and the fact that the brake lock-up coulda been way worse.
Also had trouble getting into reverse to just drag the front wheel backwards, since the gears were preloaded in fwd.
One last funny thing is that I took off the brake cable, cam arm is nice and loose, Not frozen and it rolls back and forth but if I get on it, the extra weight has something to do with the drum lock up.
Spins nicely off the ground in both directions.
ps - how can i pull the left fork tube out, if it comes to that, with the frozen axle bolt issue?
thanks