At 10:46 PM 7/23/2008 -0400, craig cowan wrote:
>Did you seriously just suggest taking off the big nut, as a "simple"
>solution to pulling the brake drum!?
>I'd rather cut it off with a torch than do that.

It's simple if you have the gear.  One of the "hammer wrenches" that
Bus Depot sells with about a five-foot bar welded to it works just
dandy.  And you can calibrate the length vs your weight to make a
torque wrench for putting it back on.

And the drum is cast iron, so it won't cut all that well.

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'84 Westy "Dutiful Passage," '85 GL "Poor Relation"