At 10:17 AM 5/20/2002, Ben McCafferty wrote:
>Hmmmm...how would you do brake work without taking it off?  Is there another
>way to get inside the drum that I'm missing here?

Sure, just take the drum off the hub.

>If you think in standard terms, this is pretty easy.  I'm 180 pounds, so
>with a 2-foot cheater bar, and me at the end of it, I generate 360 ft. lbs.

Only if you've got really skinny feet. <g>  When I built a combination
remove/reinstall wrench starting with one of the Bus Depot flat-plate
wrenches, I notched it (and marked it) at various lengths to achieve
correct torque by people of different weights, and built a stirrup with a
knife-edge to go into the notches so that by standing in the stirrup your
weight is applied at the correct point.

If someone builds something like this, remember when calibrating to account
for the weight and center of mass of the wrench (mine weighs 26 lb -- the
piece of plate I had lying around was about half an inch thick and four
inches wide, nice and stiff!), and also remember that it's only accurate
when it's horizontal.

david

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