Rear Brakes Squeking - Parking shoe or pads?

[feetwet]

My left rear brake seems to be squeaking a good deal lately. If I look at the pads through the wheel rim, it looks like there is still "meat" on the pads.

Any tips for how I can tell if the squeak is from the pads or maybe from the e-brake shoe?

Is there an e-brake shoe on both rear wheels or just one? which one?

 

[Explorer_PL]

The ebrake shoes are on both sides, and are PITA to change. Make sure you have brake tools, or at least set of few pliers different sizes. I had them both apart when changing rear bearings. I could have the whole knuckle out in 20 minutes but the freakin ebrake would take me 30 minutes to put together. Maybe it's just me or I dd not have right tools. Not every store has the shoes.

 

[feetwet]

What lead you to replace the parking brake shoes?