Hub remuvel

[rob love]

When you pull it back, does the hub stil rotate freely? If not, then it is the shoes dragging, or there is a ridge on the inside of the drum. Lynn's advise should work.

If you pull it back to the point of sticking, and the drum will still turn freely, then you problem is either a nick or slight corrosion on the spindle or a cocked bearing. Push the drum back in, with a brass drift gently tap the outer bearing back in and try again. If the outer bearing is already off, then most it may be that you are cocking the hub as you remove it.

For the nick or the cocked bearing, and even for the shes if it isn't too tight, a little more force is fine.

[arie teomim]

OK, ONE HUB IS OUT
thank you all. I think that the shoes of the other one are sticked. I will have to use more force. will try a heayier hammer
arie

[RichardT10829]

If you wind the expander right in so the shoes would be clear of the drum, then go around the outside of the drum with a rubber mallet, that sometimes helps to unstick the shoes from the drums.

Any pics of the one you have removed ?

[super dave]

The next best thing is to remove the two bolts and nuts that hold the brake actuator and the adjustment block and remove the shoes and the drum together.

[arie teomim]

and this is how it looks like after being closed for at list 50 years

[arie teomim]

And now the qustion is how to part the brack shoes?? I note that the spring holds the shoes installed in the inner side. do I remove the two shoes and the adjuster together??
thakns arie

[RichardT10829]

Just remove the spring and they will rock out of the expander.

The shoes are handed mind so don't mix them up.