Re: 1969 f250 rear brake drums

Posted by Dennis Benson on April 21, 2008 at 06:24:56 from (205.188.117.76):

In Reply to: Re: 1969 f250 rear brake drums posted by maxadrian on April 20, 2008 at 19:39:00:

Yes, but it's best to use a softer material to tap with a scrap piece of brass or aluminum between the axle and hammer, or a brass hammer.

It the drums might pull off with some trouble, and will scratch and gouge the asbestos on the shoes, but that won't matter because you're replacing the shoes. You don't want to bend the steel on the shoes because you will have to trade them for a core charge, They have to be good enough to reline. A worst case scenario might be to cut the hold downs loose. The hold downs are a rod, something like a nail, with a head on one end, and the pointed end is flattened. The flattened end goes through a cap and spring which holds the shoe against the backing plate. The flattened part goes through a little slot in the backing plate and makes a quarter turn. If you can get toi that and cut it off you will let the brake shoes come loose from the backing plate, You might even be able to use some plyers and give a quuarter turn and let the parts fall into the drum and retrieve them later, then they will be held in place by the two push rods that come out of the wheel cylinder. Those push rods shouldn't break anything too bad if they are twisted out like that.

If you need to see what parts look like a good site that I use is http://www.partsamerica.com You can then see what they will look like inside to figure whare to use force, and you can figurte if the parts are available and cheap before you break them.

It would also help to get a manual for your truck. Partsamerica, or one of their local part stores should have the book in stock, Here, the local part store is Advance Autoparts, but they have other stores around the country.

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• Re: 1969 f250 rear brake drums maxadrian 06:58:54 04/21/08 (0)

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