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They look fine. If they were the problem, shouldn't the hand brake test show exact same symptoms as when using the pedal?

Hi Skoda forum, I have been struggling a lot with my rear drum brakes on my Mk1 from 2004. They have an imbalance of around 30-40% where he left side is the weaker one. Front brakes are fine and below 5% of each other. I tried everything I could think of to fix it, but so far, everything failed. I did the following: - changed cylinders on both sides - changed shoes on both sides - changed drums on both sides - left side: replaced brake last part of brake pipe (picture shows the copper one I formed next to original) - left side: changed flexible brake tube going to replaced pipe - took out ABS fuse to make sure there was no ABS activity - vented both sides multiple times All of these actions have nothing to improve the problem. I still have around 40% difference between the two drum brakes. When braking with the manual parking brake, the force is a lot more equal, the difference drops to around around 15%. From that, I suspect that the problem must be of hydraulic nature. It looks like there is no brake power regulator or reducer on my car. It looks like all brake pipes go directly into the ABS control unit under the hood. Does anyone have any ideas on what else to try to resolve, or even diagnose, this problem? / Pascal