Ol John Lees Drums and a tail pipe

[Sharps40]

The job that didn't get done before heading to hunting camp was new break drums. A couple are pretty worn, serviceable but need replaced. Orelies and Autozone has them. So, picked up two of the four today to do the rear breaks. A simpler job, no rivets to drill out on the rear hubs and no hubs to pull off either. So, here we go. Safety First.....jack stands and chocks since this is done breaks released and in neutral.





Once the wheels are off, back off the shoes to get them out of the grooves in the drums, otherwise the drums are stuck on and can't be pulled w/o tearing the shoe assemblies from their mounts. Run the star wheel backwards using an old paint can opener to hold the star wheel activating arm out of the way. Once backed off, the drums should come off easy. The driverside drum had rusted to the hub and needed a couple good wacks on the hub to shake it loose after backing off the shoes.



The star wheel adjusting arm that has to be held out of the way to back the star wheel off. Its job is to advance the star wheel, takeing up wear in the breaks at each reverse stop and also to keep the star wheel from backing off. Sort of an advancer and a blocker all in one.


Yep, gota broken break shoe, thats the next job.

The rotton old drum next to the new drum. New drum is much nicer condition but the adjusting hole is still plugged. I tried to knock it out with a punch and hammer, no dice.





So, off to the drill press to remove most of the meat from the knock out tab and then punch it out with a good sturdy stanly flattip scewdriver and a 2.5 lb hammer.