I'm sure the bearings really enjoy that blow with the sledge hammer. I like to remove the drums. Then after cleaning things up, I remove the outer bearing seals, and then using a thin grease needle, inject grease into the wheel bearing. After the grease comes out of the rollers, I wipe out the excess and replace the seal. Wipe out all the grease on the outside of the bearing. This will allow for expansion when the bearings get warm. If you don't leave room, you will blow out the seals. Dennis
-----Original Message----- From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM] On Behalf Of Tom Young Sent: Saturday, May 10, 2003 8:11 PM To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM Subject: Re: Rear Brakes Perhaps living in California has spoiled me in this regard, but even in situations where the drums and hubs have been together for a long, long time I've managed to remove the drums from the hubs without going to Herculean effort. Certainly less effort than removing and them installing a nut to 500Nm, particularly since I don't have the tools to do this in the first place. I've always found that judicious use of a 3 lb. sledge around the circumference of the flat face of the drum will eventually break the "sticktion" that builds up between the drum and the hub. --------------------------------------------------------------- Tom Young '81 Vanagon Lafayette, CA 94549 '82 Westfalia --------------------------------------------------------------- ----- Original Message ----- From: "John Connolly" <john@AIRCOOLED.NET> To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM> Sent: Saturday, May 10, 2003 4:14 PM Subject: Re: Rear Brakes
> while I do agree you can do it, it is a lot easier to remove the drum and > hub. Sometimes trying to remove the drum from the hub is a SOB. Kinda' like > changing the generator in a beetle in the engine bay. You CAN do it but it's > easier to just yank the engine first. > > John > Aircooled.Net Inc. > > > >The myth that one needs to remove the axle nut to do the rear brakes is > one > > >that's been repeated in just about every manual I've seen. Even the > > >Bentley, while not explicitly saying so, suggests this it true. Well, > it's > > >not. > > |
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