you might try " rubber the rightway.com"

happy

were your brakes worked on prior to the scraping?

happy

Thanks for the offer. I will take you up on it. First, a new inner seal has been ordered for the right side. After reading Ross' comments, I looked closely at the seal and found it not properly seated and cocked tight and possibly interfering with the correct positioning of the bearing. It is supposed to be in town tomorrow morning.
In the mean time I'll have to learn how to PM.

Not quite so: "Happy"

Thanks for the feedback and suggestions. Did insure that the bearing race was even with the 3 shims on the left side and no shims on the right side and firmly in contact with the backing plate. Still incurring interference.
Pulled everything back out. Reassembled without shims to check end play on the left side. Found it to be h040". Checked thickness of shims , 3 @ .020 each or .o6o" total.
Zero end play on right side.
How important is the relationship of the stop block face to the axle end? May be need to rotate block 180 degrees?
This is beginning to get a little bit aggregating

Thanks for comments and suggestions. Yes both backing plates were torqued to 30 foot pounds. Rapping against a wood block with a heavy hammer did nothing. Your comment about the bearing races touching the backing plate could be most helpful. After receiving your response, removed both backing plates,( getting pretty good at this), and took a picture of the driver's side. Note : shims holding backing plate away from bearing race. This could be most licking the major cause of my problem. I feel almost certain that the shims were as shown when the unit was disabled but sometimes memory fails me. At this time there appears to be no end play. There is one more thing I feel that needs to be checked. It may of the thrust block are reversed and is affecting the axle end play.

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There is a thing called "axle Shaft thrust block" group 12.0194, part 446138. The shop manual states that it can move and cause a problem. It is located in the differential carrier. The carrier was removed and the block investigated. It is a multisided block with two bright shiny surfaces likely caused by contact with axle shaft ends. Made sure these surfaces were aligned with axle shifts and replaced carrier. Verified correct placement by shining flashlight down axle tube. Saw clean reflective surface. Put back axle shafts backing plate, brake assembly , and drum. Hand tightened nut. Wheel still as before; shoes contacting drum.

Could be, since I was interested in getting a picture and didn't check the assembly for total correctness.

Yes that's possible since I had the assembly apart and had to put it back together in order to take a picture.

Yes the metal edge of both shoes, on the drum side contacted the drum. This is happening on both the left and right sides

picture left rear assembly:

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