Can Not Get My Rear Drums Off For The Love Of Money

[205johnnyxsi 0]

Hello there my bearings just gone again on my rear passenger side wheel..... from the start taken my alloy off taken my hub bolt and washer and noticed the outer bearing has shot it (its done 100 miles on the new ones ) but anyways beacuse they are nackered i cant get my drum off i have bashed it tried to prie it off but no joy what so ever i need the car for work...

 

What information could you lot give me to release the drum many thanks before hand

 

Johnny

[MerlinGTI 3]

First thing.... and I only mention it as ive done it myself before whilst rushing.... is the handbrake off!?!

 

Does the hub rotate freely? if not, move the adjuster with a thin screwdriver through one of the bolt holes untill it does and try again.

 

Failing all this your need a hub puller

[Tom Fenton 1,541]

Sometimes they can be stubborn, I've got a hub puller similar to ebay item no 350068862978 that has never failed me.

 

However something must be very wrong for a new bearing to fail in 100 miles. Did you grease it when you fitted the new one?

[M@tt 77]

i had a bearing seize on the stub axle on my CTI, in the end i had to just use a lump hammer and a drift and proper whack it for ages till eventually the bearing pulled itslef apart and the drum cam off. It left the inner race part of the bearing stuck on the stub axle and i had to get some heat and an angle grinder (carefully) on it to get it off

 

best of luck

[VisaGTi16v 1]

I tried for ages to get one of mine off before and it wouldnt budge. Went to my friends, who removed the hub nut, hit the drum a few times with a hammer, put the wheel back on with 2 wheel nuts and spun it backwards and the damm drum just came off by itself. Apparently this is how he always does it (mechanic by trade).

[bren_1.3 1]

they can be siezed solid sometimes, like others mention. you can knock the stub axle out though if all else fails...and it should come off.

 

try everything else though before you do that though...a good slide hammer/ hub puller would work though surely?!

[205johnnyxsi 0]

Hello Relased it with a hub puller worked great

 

But the problem i have now is a bit of the hub cracked off only a bit and it bent the out caseing where the shoes are and that but its not in the way and shouldnt catch when its all in movement..... but question is is it nackord from that ???

[205johnnyxsi 0]

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[kyepan 291]

Perhaps a photo might help, also pls try to punctuate too, as it's hard work to deciper that last post.

 

cheers

 

J

[chris1986 1]

do you mean the part where the wheel sits onto the drum? if so i would get a new drum

[205johnnyxsi 0]

yeah it F***ed i discided today local scrapers 10+vat take it off myself so im just going get another one for that money thanks lads and ladys