Rear Drums: hot & smelly!

Hard to tell in the 1st or last picture, but is the strut bar properly engaged on the rear shoe?

OldmanRick: here is a photo of the 'before':
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Although the angle of my 'after' photo doesn't show it clearly, it seems as if there are two plates (the strut bar rests on the 'inner' while the return cable attaches to the 'outer'). Does that sound right? I will still take another peak just to verify.