Rear drums too tight

Thanks for all the replies guys.

I drove it home a couple years ago and started tearing it apart. The brakes worked well enough to get me home and I don't recall it being difficult to get the drums off. Unfortunately I don't have any of the hardware that was originally installed.

So the oval retaining washer is on the top anchor. It's just camoflauged back there. The washer went on first, then the cable, then yellow spring, then black spring last. The shoes seat flush against the top anchor.

Backing plates are lubricated.

The e brake strut was fully seated in the shoe slots as I was testing this. I verified and was paying attention that it was fully seated as I was doing the work. I think it popped out due to whatever fiddling I was doing before I took the picture. The lever for the e brake is as far toward the rear as I could get it. To the point where the hold down pin just barely makes it past.

I also test fitted it without the adjuster even installed at the bottom and it didn't help my cause. I'll still check and see if I can verify if the adjuster is the correct length.

I'm thinking the issue is either wrong shoes (need to try and figure out which ones I bought from rockauto) or the wheel cylinders aren't retracting completely. I rebuilt the cylinders and honed them out, which was my first time ever attempting that. Also bent and flared the rear lines for the first time. I'm thinking it's gotta be one of those issues because I've done rear drum brake shoes and hardware a dozen times in the past on various A bodies with zero issues.