Re: drum brake removal

Posted by BigKev On 2012/5/22 10:09:20

I have read about people saying to leave pressure on the drum for days and it will pop. In reality, Packard nor Chrysler mechanics would never do that. Time is money, and tell a customer to come back in a couple of days when the drum decided to break lose would have got you looked at like you had a screw loose.

On a stubborn drum, it is going to take way more hits with the hammer than you think it will. Unless the rear axel and drum was sitting submerged for while and is rust fused, just keep hammering and it will let go. It is both the pressure from the puller under tension, and the shock from the hammer blows on the dog bone while tightenting that causes the drum to break free of the axel taper.

On my car one side took a ton of blows before it broke loose. So much so that I was waiting for the puller to fail. But it didn't, and the drum broke loose. The other side I had off in about 2 mins.