SR5

my truck is the most stubborn piece of s
im trying to get the drum off and their stuck on their, any tricks to get them off

iamsuperbleeder

thread some bolts into the tapped holes on it, then beat on it with a hammer, after getting through the little opening in the back and un-adjusting the brakes of course

abecedarian

adjust the shoes loose (http://personal.utulsa.edu/~nathan-b...tem/11-4wd.pdf step 3)
smack it with a hammer... or...find the threaded holes in the drum and run a couple bolts in...

edit- missed it by > < that much

a4runnerfreak

Loosen up the brake adjuster, and tap all around the drum with a hammer. Or put a large standard screwdriver between the drum and the backing plate, and twist it/pry back and forth some to get the drum to move.....

SR5

oh ya i forgot about the thread through trick, ok ill be back

99SR5

iTrader: (1)

smash it with a hammer and make sure the parking brake is off =)

abecedarian

That always helps too.

SR5

its coold wet and windy, and i am sick of my dam truck, it always does this to me, i go to do like a 5min thing, and it takes HOUUURSS to do, oh and my neighbor called the cops on me, because i severed ournd a peice of ice, and he thought i was trying to kill em,
so i quit........

SR5

and yes i tried EVERYTHING mentioned above

86Toyrunna

possibly put some all-thread in thoes threaded holes and use a slide-hammer (or something to that effect) to try and bust em loose.. yea make sure that parking break is fully relased with all the cold wet weather us in the pacific nw have seen latley they may be froze up.. i felt like a damn idiot one day after beatin on mine for almost 2 hours just to realize i left the parkin break engaged lol

SR5

no i checked it, its off, i banned with a hammer, tried the threading through with bolts, and tried to loosen the brake from the back, and nothing, also tried hitting with brake cleaner, nothing
so im going to get a "free brake inspection" tomorrow, let them deal with it.

Bigblock

It wont be free after that one.LOL
Bigblock

iamsuperbleeder

About 2 weeks after I first picked up my 91 the brakes started feeling REALLY soft, then I noticed fluid on the inside of my rear tires, and sure enough I was low on brake fluid.

So I go to tear into the job so replace the wheel cylinders and everything else in there, and when I went to remove mine, they would wiggle a little, but absolutely WOULD NOT come off. Screwed with it for 2 hours before thinking of letting slack out of the adjustment through the backing plate, and after fiddling with that for another 30 minutes, I managed to pry the things off. They were the original drums on the truck with 285k miles on them, and they had worn a groove so deep in them, that I'm convinced they would have ate through in the next 5 or 6 thousand miles... there was very little metal left...

needless to say, it also got new drums then too...