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BrakeDrumandHubRemoval
I've decided I want Disc Brakes on my PW. Therefore the first thing I did after getting the truck home was remove the brake drums and hubs.
It wasn't as bad as it could have been. It looks like the brakes had been replaced just prior to the PW being put to sleep. The drums show very little grooving and the pads show very little wear.
I'm not a professional mechanic and I've never worked on a PW before. I don't have a manual (but will be buying one). As a rookie I discovered several things to remember, that will help make this easier in the future.
1) Your going to need some big tools. I had to buy a 1 1/2" socket and 3/4" drive to take the lug nuts off.
2) The lug nuts on the drivers side are left hand threads. Thankfully this only cost me about 15 minutes before I rememebered a recent post on the forum that mentioned someone changing all their wheel studs to right hand.
3) Your going to need the mother of all flat blade screw drivers to take the three screws out of the brake drum. I didn't have one and the screw heads where pretty chewed up, so I took them out with a flat punch and a hammer.
4) You need to loosen the brake pads to get the brake drum off. There are four adjusters on each wheel. Two are located at 10 and 2 oclock and rotate a cam that pushes against the pad. They don't turn very far and I just turned them so the drum turned easier. Same for the two adjusters at the bottom.
5) After you take the brake drums off and remove the hub ends, there are two large nuts holding the hub in place. If the hubs are packed with grease (like mine) you can't tell there are two nuts. Most vehicles I've worked on have one nut with a coter key. So this issue cost be about 15 minutes. The nuts are also very large.
The hubs are off and on there way to Medford Oregan.
To be continued...... |
Date(s): October 8th 2005. Album by David Lynch. 1 - 24 of 36 Total. 0 Visits. |
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