[FWDLK] brake drum puller

[Jan & Roger van Hoy <vanhilla@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Those brake drum pullers are fantastic!  Have had one for years, last time 
used was a couple years ago in a wrecking yard on a '55 Plymouth.  The yard 
guy insisted on doing the work, he too was amazed at how easily it pops the 
drum off the tapered axle.

I can vouch for the idea that right-hand nuts on the left side do work 
loose.  Had it happen when towing a '47 Cadillac back in '73.  The lug nuts 
were sitting along the road at about 20' apart, the tire and wheel bounced 
considerably further.

--Roger van Hoy


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Richard Barber" <C300@xxxxxxx>
To: <L-FORWARDLOOK@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, February 04, 2010 11:48 PM
Subject: [FWDLK] FORWARDLOOK Digest '56 Plymouth Brakes


> These daily digests come to me in very difficult to read format with a lot
> of garbage text.  Is that normal?  Are there some options that would get 
> me
> cleaner text & messages?
>
> Regarding the Plymouth brake shoes:  My experience with my '55 Chrysler 
> 300
> was that I had to buy a special hell-for-stout drum puller for the rear
> drums.  See Item 9 at:
> http://www.chrysler300club.com/rcmstuff/partsforsale.html It works
> great.  Remember to leave the axle nut  threaded loosely to the axle end 
> as
> the drum can come off the tapered axle like a cannonball when it lets 
> loose.
> I had the shoes relined at a Sacramento shop, but the drums would not fit
> over them, even in the minimal position.  I returned the shoes and the 
> drums
> to them and they "arc ground" the shoes to fit the ID's of the drums. 
> Next
> time, I'll remember to take the drums in the first time.  I had my 
> mechanic
> give a light cleanup pass on the brake drum machine so as to preserve as
> much iron in the drums as possible and that worked fine.  It always seems
> that it would be best to machine all the grooves and scratches out of the
> drum ID's, but these drums are getting kind of hard to find and a light 
> pass
> to knock down the high spots and restore roundness may work just fine. 
> The
> reline shop also refused to reline a couple of the shoes based on some
> measurements they took.  It was not a wear issue, more like a warpage 
> issue.
> I got their last two brake shoe cores.
>
> Historical note:  1955 was the last year that Chrysler used lug bolts that
> threaded into the brake drums.  There are locating pins on each axle 
> flange
> to help align the wheel before threading in the lug bolts.  That's what 
> the
> little holes between the larger lug bolt holes are for.  The driver's side
> lugs were left-hand thread- apparently to reduce the tendency of the
> spinning and vibrating wheel to loosen the threaded fasteners.  I never 
> did
> buy that one.  In 1956, Chrysler began pressing the lug bolts into the 
> brake
> drums (axle flanges?) and using lug nuts to hold the wheel to the drum.
>
> Rich Barber
> Brentwood, CA
> 1955 Chrysler C-300 (Goes a heck of a lot better than it stops)
>
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