

| 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... > >--------------------------------------------------------------------- >Tom Young young@sherlock.SIMS.Berkeley.EDU >Lafayette, CA 94549 '81 Vanagon >--------------------------------------------------------------------- >
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