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Subject:Re: Rear Brake Drums
From:David Beierl
Date:Thu, 26 Oct 2000 11:23:09 -0400
At 10:15 10/26/2000, wb6otg wrote:
>off to be able to get at all the springs and stuff in there.  Its probably
>possible to do a rear brake job just by removing the drum, but it didn't
>look easy!

No question at all, it's been done thousands of times.  It's
mild-to-moderately inconvenient, but nothing at all like dealing with that
nut without proper equipment including being able to retorque to insanely
high figure.

david
David Beierl - Providence, RI
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