Rear hubnut peugeot 106

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It's French - it'll be metric.

============= Front is 30mm - rear is 32mm. You're supposed to use a new nut every time.

Cic.

Thanks for the prompt reply. Now to find somewhere which sells the nuts in walking distance (the brakes have locked on!).

John

================= If you can wait a day or so try:

HTH Martin

You can re-use the nuts as a temporary measure. The main thing is that there is still plenty metal left to knock them into the locking tab. If this is a problem, you can always swap them to the opposite side, that way there's a better chance of them tightening up to a different part off the nut.

Or reuse the nut & change it for a new one pronto, it's not that likely to fail

Buy yourself a set of shoes while you are there, save yourself another walk later on! (Most likely the brake lining will have parted company with the shoe, gone round and jammed under the other shoe)

Before you get it stripped, try vigorously reversing, to free the brakes off, or you wont be able to get the drum off. It will probably take quite a bit of thrutching to get it to release.

.........thrutching, is that like mulching but using a larger hammer.

dj

The wheel refuses to rotate in either direction. I've tried reversing it vigorously but just managed to make a tyre mark down the road.

I've also tried hitting it with a large hammer. Do you have a better definition of thrutching which I could try before I get out the angle grinder and end up buying a new drum.

Thanks John

Bigger hammer?? Seriously, get a sledge hammer, and bray the living daylights out of the drum, then put the wheel back on, and try the reversing thing again! (This is assuming that you were going forward when the brakes locked?) If you are thinking of cutting the drum off anyway, you lose nothing if the drum shatters while hitting it, but you will be surprised how much punishment a brake drum will take from a sledge hammer before it will shatter.

See if you can get to the adjuster mechanism through slots in the back of the drum, and back the adjustment off a bit.

Are you sure its the brakes that have locked, and not the bearing seized?