i like to work on my vehicle myself, so help would be nice thank you... i have a 95 honda accord 2 door with front disk and rear drums, eventually i want to change the rear drums to disk brakes

I have a 94 LeBaron. I replaced the pads on the front. Now I'd like to do the back wheels.

I need to take a look and probably service the drum brakes on my 1989 Honda Civic. I have succesfully done brakes - both disc and drum- on other cars. The right rear drum came off fine but the left rear won't. Likely there is a a groove at the edge catching the pads and preventing removal. The solution (according to the manual and my experience) is to turn the star wheel to pull the pads in. This is nearly impossible it seems with the Honda drums. I simply can't do it. Is there a special tool or technique that I need to apply to accomplish this? I pulled the drum on the other side to practice what I need to do but it was difficult to do staring right at it. It's seems impossible when I can't see it on the left side. Thoughts? Advice? Side note: I don't have the money to have it professionally serviced so that is not a great solution for me.

Are there any tools that will tune the heads for you automatically? Instead of using a drum key?