Date: Sun, 28 Feb 1999 22:22:18 -0500
Reply-To: EMZ <vw4x4@FYI.NET>
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From: EMZ <vw4x4@FYI.NET>
Subject: Re: Brake Help Please!!!!!
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Well then the only thing left that will hold it on, it
rust around the center of the hub. Use a Hammer and penetrating
oil. MAKE SURE YOU DON'T BREAK THE DRUM! Pound on the hub only
brtween the lug nuts, as if you were pounding it on. After about
a 1/2 hour of this it will loosen up. Did this at a VW show in OHIO
on ERik'o Syncro. Great demistration.
Eric 86-VW4x4
vw4x4@fyi.net 72-240z
Pittsburgh, PA USA 1936-Chrysler
On Sun, 28 Feb 1999, Don R. Preston, Jr. wrote:
> Yep, removed them both right after I removed the wheels.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: EMZ <vw4x4@FYI.NET>
> To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
> Date: Sunday, February 28, 1999 1:15 PM
> Subject: Re: Brake Help Please!!!!!
>
>
> > DId you remove the small 11 mm bolts that hold the drum on?
> >They are located on the outside, right next to the lug nut studs
> >that are sticking out. There are 2. They bolt the center of the drum
> >to the hub.
> >
> > Eric 86-VW4x4
> > vw4x4@fyi.net 72-240z
> > Pittsburgh, PA USA 1936-Chrysler
> >
> >
> >On Sun, 28 Feb 1999, Don R. Preston, Jr. wrote:
> >
> >> Hi there everyone,
> >>
> >> Sorry to bother you all with this, but I'm to the point of
> >> frustration......even the Corona's aren't helping anymore..
> >>
> >> So I was just gonna replace the rear brake pads.......
> >>
> >> I can get the rear passenger-side wheel off, but I cannot get the drum
> off,
> >> no matter what. I have adjusted the geared adjuster (accessed through a
> hole
> >> on the inside of the brake) and loosened the parking brake up. Alas, no
> >> go...
> >>
> >> The drum doesn't seem to be loosening from the back plate at all. I won't
> >> even go into the driver's-side.....I'm going to have to get an impact
> driver
> >> just to get the last two lug-nuts off.
> >>
> >> Anybody out there know of some trick to loosening the rotors?
> >>
> >> I guess Debbie (p.o.) was right when she said that the van had never had
> >> it's brakes serviced......*ouch*
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >>
> >> Don & Christina Preston
> >> '87 Wolfsberg Vanagon GL
> >> '77 Auto Transporter
> >>
>
>
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