Trouble removing brake drum

Posted by Kevin Wible on Saturday, July 26, 2008 at 18:43:38 :

I'm a rookie, never worked on anything this old or big (1946 DPW). I'm trying to get to a leaking brake cylinder, and am having trouble pulling the brake drum off.

I see three large flatheaded screw heads in the drum, located between the wheel studs. Do these need to come out to pull the drum?

If so, how do I get them out when they seem to be rusted in place. I tried WE-40 and a manual impact wrench with hand sledge - no luck. Starting to damage the screw heads.

Is there a trick to this?

Kevin

Follow Ups:

• Still the easiest method - D Sherman 23:53:52 07/26/2008
• Re: Trouble removing brake drum - MarkP 22:29:10 07/26/2008
  • Re: Trouble removing brake drum - Gordon Maney 13:33:35 07/27/2008
    • drag link socket - ground to exact size - mannyc 20:53:57 07/27/2008
  • Re: Trouble removing brake drum - KenW 01:42:59 07/27/2008
• Re: Trouble removing brake drum - MoparMogSteve 21:45:21 07/26/2008
• Re: Trouble removing brake drum - Vaughn 19:30:56 07/26/2008
  • And back off the shoe adjusters too. - chris case 20:20:40 07/26/2008
• Re: Trouble removing brake drum - Jerry in Idaho 19:03:49 07/26/2008
  • Re: Trouble removing brake drum - MoparMogSteve 21:41:24 07/26/2008
  • Re: Trouble removing brake drum - Vaughn 19:23:40 07/26/2008
    • Re: Trouble removing brake drum - Jerry in Idaho 02:14:36 07/27/2008
    • Re: Trouble removing brake drum - Marty 23:14:03 07/26/2008

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