RE: IML: Drum, Do OR DIE

[Mike Pittinaro <mechimike@xxxxxxxxx>]

I once had to pull the rear drum of a volvo 122 and
ran into the same stuck drum on the tapered axle
issue.  I eventually got disgusted, and swapped out
the rear.  But, for laziness more than anything else,
I left the drum puller attached onto the offending
drum and torqued down as tight as possible.  

A few months later, I fell across the axle in my shop,
drum puller still attached to the stuck drum.  I took
my 25 lb sledge (the same one I had been banging on it
with  3 months previous) and with one mighty "WHACK!"
the drum popped right off!  

Apparently tapered axle drums are subjust to the same
laws of nature that create diamonds:  Pressure, and
Time.


--Mike Pittinaro

'To Engineer' was never meant to signify poking around with a mouse on a Nintendo-on-steroids computer system.

'It's a shallow life that doesn't give a person a few scars' 
-- Garrison Keillor

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