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Subject:Re: Brake Help Please!!!!!
From:Marshall Ruskin
Date:Sun, 28 Feb 1999 18:40:42 -0600

We call that "A Canadian Tune-up"!

Marshall Ruskin
84 Westy
-----Original Message-----
From: Tom Young <young@SHERLOCK.SIMS.BERKELEY.EDU>
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Date: Sunday, February 28, 1999 5:18 PM
Subject: Re: Brake Help Please!!!!!

>As was mentioned in another reply, you probably need to go at the drum
>with a hammer.  Rust can form between the inner face of the drum and the
>outer face of the hub, "glueing" one to the other.
>
>Hit the flat face of the drum, right near the outer circumference.
>You'll probably need to hit it plenty hard, and several times, to loosen
>things up.
>
>
>On Sun, 28 Feb 1999, Don R. Preston, Jr. wrote:
>
>> 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...
>
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>Tom Young               young@sherlock.SIMS.Berkeley.EDU
>Lafayette, CA  94549    '81 Vanagon
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