Common thing on Toyota drums I beleive, or perhaps Datsun. Simple, clever, effective. The vanagon drum is too thin in the middle area to be able to have that feature, much too thing. the drums that have this feature are perhaps 1/4 to 5/16's inch where the threaded holes are. Vanagon is about .....what 50 thousandth's thick there. It's even sheet metal like almost. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Allan Streib" <streib@cs.indiana.edu> To: "Scott Daniel - Turbovans" <scottdaniel@TURBOVANS.COM> Cc: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM> Sent: Thursday, July 24, 2008 8:24 PM Subject: Re: Rear Brake Drum Removal Suggestions?
> My old Mercedes that had rear drum brakes had three evenly space > threaded holes in the face of the drum. You could thread bolts into > those holes, and then tighten them evenly and they would push against > the flange and press the drum off. Nice touch, I've not seen that on > any other cars, but I'd guess you could drill and tap some holes to do > that once you got the drum off. > > Allan > -- > 1991 Vanagon GL |
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