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It has rear disc brakes, actually, with a drum emergency/parking brake. I just replaced the pads in the rear and they seem to be doing fine. I should be able to test the brake theory, however, by switching into neutral and seeing how far I can coast. If I'm still slowing rapidly, it would make sense that something in the rear portion of the car is causing the drag. I had a differential gasket leak and I replaced all of the gear oil with a nice synthetic early on in my repair work. Hopefully that is not the problem.
Transmission fluid is currently a mixture of whatever the Meineke shop put in it back in March and a bottle of hard-shift lube/leak seal. It shifts into second gear pretty hard, but not as hard as it did before I put in the bottle of goop. Considering its viscosity, it's not helping my mileage, that's for sure, but that shift was scaring me.
As for the fuel logs, I keep a note on my phone every time I fill up, but I only put in the mpg for the trip. Since I can't simply backdate the mileage for the last six months, I decided to go the quick route and enter the mileage times ten, divided by ten gallons of gas. I only have a twelve gallon tank, so I usually only put between 10 and 11 gallons in the car anyway.
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