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Grape Daddy
1) Rap on the drum with mallet or lightly with hammer. Loosen 2 adj screws for shoes. 2) Re-install wheel.3) Turn wheel by hand, at the same time rocking it violently top/bottom, side-to-side.
Speedy Jim
That took care of it. Thanks.
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Assuming these are two piece drums like type 3s, and use lug bolts, not lug nuts, then the trick I've found that always works is as follows:
Jack up rear end on jackstands.
Remove wheel/tire from one side, leave other wheel/tire mounted. Remove the 2 hex screws.
Start engine, put in 1st gear, rev it up.
Slam on the brakes. Drum will come loose on the one side.
Remount wheel/tire on that side. Remove wheel/tire and hex screws from other side. Repeat.
Remove wheel/tire and both drums will be loose.
You may have to back off the brake shoes to get the drums off.
I usually put a THIN smear of grease on the mating face of the hub once I've done this, to prevent the rust from seizing this again.
Good thinking. ;-)
------------------------------------------------ Jim Adney snipped-for-privacy@vwtype3.org Madison, WI 53711 USA
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Sounds simple, but I don't see what that would do, with the lug bolts tight....
------------------------------------------------ Jim Adney snipped-for-privacy@vwtype3.org Madison, WI 53711 USA
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LOL Fair point. Jim
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----------------------------------------------- Jim Adney snipped-for-privacy@vwtype3.org Madison, WI 53711 USA
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So what am I missing? Did you mean to just install the lug bolts loose and then rattle the wheel around?
If that works, I'd love to add it to my bag of tricks. ;-)
------------------------------------------------ Jim Adney snipped-for-privacy@vwtype3.org Madison, WI 53711 USA
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No, the whole idea was a total dud on Buses with separate hub and drum:-( Jim
Okay, then I guess we're back on the same wavelength. Now explain how it was that he wrote back to thank you because it worked for him? ;-)
------------------------------------------------ Jim Adney snipped-for-privacy@vwtype3.org Madison, WI 53711 USA
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who knows? between the easing oil, the bigger hammer, and racking the wheel back and forth with the lug bolts a little loose, it budged, and then I recovered just enough hope to work it the rest of the way off. For the other drum, I removed the 2 hex bolts, and noted that the bigger hammer left an impression on the side of the other drum and that the drums were MX. Brake drums or no, I don't like to hit anything I like with a hammer. The racking the wheel trick made me feel better at least and it just might have worked. It tapped the edges back toward the backplate, like maybe I should have been using my claw hammer.
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