On the trip to the shops this morning I kept seeing a puff of smoke in the left hand mirror. I plugged the Nanocom in when I got home and nothing seems to be amiss. No faults stored and cylinder balance values not too excessive. I tightened up the hand brake and reached the end of the adjuster travel before the drum locked solid so it could be time for some new shoes. I tried to adjust the cable too, but the thimble on the end is hard to get at. Cubby box out, centre panel off and there's still not much room. I know, let's take the handbrake lever off the seatbox. Yes, it can be withdrawn enough to get at the thimble, so I took up a few turns of slack. The captive nuts holding the handbrake bracket to the seat box decided to liberate themselves when I put it back together. Fortunately I've got them off and have run a tap through them to make them a little easier on the bolts, and put them back They seem to be made out of a circular nut welded to a tab which is pop riveted to the seatbox. Fortunately it is only the pop rivets that have given up. I can replace them but won't do so until the next time I have the mats up and can get at the front of the seatbox properly. So what I thought would only be a quick job turned out to be a lot longer. As usual.