Rear Brake Drums
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From: St Louis
If the drum is well worn (has an interior ridge), you can bang on it all day and it will never come off even if the rust on the hub breaks loose.
You really should release the shoes if the drum is tight. Use a thin screwdriver to push the start wheel lock lever back slightly, then use your adjuster tool to reverse the star wheel several turns.
A word of advice: Once the drums are removed, do only one side at a time. Do not diassemble both sides at the same time unless you have either a perfect memory or a correct diagram of how all the springs go back in there. Remeber that each side is a mirror image of the other.
Just did mine last week, the memory is still very fresh.
Steve
You really should release the shoes if the drum is tight. Use a thin screwdriver to push the start wheel lock lever back slightly, then use your adjuster tool to reverse the star wheel several turns.
A word of advice: Once the drums are removed, do only one side at a time. Do not diassemble both sides at the same time unless you have either a perfect memory or a correct diagram of how all the springs go back in there. Remeber that each side is a mirror image of the other.
Just did mine last week, the memory is still very fresh.
Steve
