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As Ed says, if your drums were turned and your shoes are new, there will be two slightly different sized circles you're dealing with now and simple geometry tells us only the high points of the inner circle will hit the drums now. This will take care of itself in time and often doesn't produce the result you're talking about but a failed or failing wheel cylinder (usually in the front) can. It causes the side with the good cylinder to want to stop while the other side (which has the bad cylinder) not to want to stop. Just a thought. Sounds to me like something is causing the brakes on your front to work unevenly and this is a good culprit. This same situation on the rear might not be felt as much...usually on a vehicle like the AD it feels like your brakes aren't working as well anymore when one cylinder on the rear fails (which is exactly what is happening). I think if you didn't replace or rebuild the wheel cylinders on the front, I'd do that now. There are some wheel cylinders and master cylinders still being made in the USA. One brand the master cylinders are being sold under is Cardone. The wheel cylinders interestingly are being sold under the AC Delco name. Rock Auto has them for about $30 each last time I looked. Hunt for the "professional" model. You can usually find rebuild kits also at Rock Auto. Good luck.