drum brake nut pressed?

The nut is soft enought that it should bend back out if you force the nut to loosen.

I do not understand what you mean.

1. Do you mean if I turn the nut with a socket and rachet wrench, the pressed part is so soft that it will yield and press up from the slot and become unpressed? and the nut will turn?

2 Or do you mean if I use a flat screwdriver and hammer I can bent the pressed-in part of the nut-retainer to come out from the slot and then able to use a socket and rachet wrench to remove the nut? **** 3.Meantime I was able to remove the drum without touching the nut, by using a big screwdriver #7 to remove a retainer screw and a bolt metric size 7 pitch 1.0 and a socket rachet wrench to push the drum out of the holding plate and brake system. Thus the nut-retainer still machine pressed into the slot. The noise disappeared. It appears the Gurr-gurr- gurr noise may be from the wheel cover. ******* 4.Still please clarify how to remove the nut-retainer that is pressed onto the slot for the next time I have to do it. Thanks ***************************************************************

hyundaitech wrote:

Sorry I misunderstood. You shouldn't remove the nut unless you're servicing the rear wheel hub or need to remove it for some reason, which, as you've already discovered, is not necessary to remove the drum.

You could use either method 1 or 2 from your post, but you may need something a little more significant than a regular screwdriver-- a punch may be more in line with what's needed.

thanks for the info. I agree that seems never or seldomly have a need to remove that nut-retainer. I will keep the info in mind. When I need to do it, I will use a big punch and lot of hammering force.