Re: [vintagvw] Stuck brake drum
Sounds like it is frozen on the splines. Try heating the drum around the splines. On 6/12/09, No Quarter sil...@beatricene.com wrote: Might be time to get yourself a wheel puller. I own a Cornwell which attaches via the lug bolts. You can then extract it. Otherwise, tons of solvent, oxy-acetylene torch followed by shoving a block of parafin wax onto the axle, and don't forget the age-old 100-taps rule. Anytime you tap with a hammer, tap it a 100 times before you stop. I would venture to guess if you give yourself time, you will succeed. I had a 1967 bus brake drum that was seized - took a week of my grandfather tapping, squirting solvent, etc. before the wheel puller would get it off. Once the splines rust, it's really tough breaking that molecular bond. Erin - Original Message - From: pete peter.pe...@sbcglobal.net To: Air-Cooled Volkswagen Discussion List vintagvw@lists.sjsu.edu Sent: Thursday, June 11, 2009 11:06 PM Subject: [vintagvw] Stuck brake drum Hey gang, Trying to get to a leaky wheel cylinder on the rear of my 66 bug. 36mm nut is off. Brake shoes are adjusted all the way in. Drum spins freely. Liberal amounts of pb blaster applied. Drum won't pull off. Bang with big f'ing hammer all over and it won't budge. Autozone tool rental doesn't have a puller big enough to reach the edges of the drum. Anyone have tip or trick to get this thing off? Thanks. -pete Fairfield, CA ___ vintagvw site list vintagvw@lists.sjsu.edu http://lists.sjsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/vintagvw ___ vintagvw site list vintagvw@lists.sjsu.edu http://lists.sjsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/vintagvw -- Sent from my mobile device ___ vintagvw site list vintagvw@lists.sjsu.edu http://lists.sjsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/vintagvw
Re: [vintagvw] Hubcaps - to Plate or Not to Plate
Yeah that! Thomas E. Potter ... Or should I just suck it up, use a chrome polish from my FLAPS, and remember that it's a 40-year-old car? Bert Knupp in Music City USA |__n__ (_)º (Ô\_|_/Ô) ü ° ° ü Polizeikäfer '70 ___ vintagvw site list vintagvw@lists.sjsu.edu http://lists.sjsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/vintagvw
Re: [vintagvw] Hubcaps - to Plate or Not to Plate
Bert, When trying to find places to rechrome my OG Champagne Edition bumpers I found that the price was near astronomical and the wait was 6 months before they would touch them. When I say astronomical...I mean...$600 each!!! Much cheaper to buy the triple chrome from Wolfsburg west? Cheers ,dave -- --- Enough sunlight reaches the Earth *every* hour to meet the world's energy demand for an entire year.so, what do we do with it? On Thu, 11 Jun 2009, Bert Knupp wrote: Volks, I have a pretty good assortment of pretty good hubcaps for my '70. But they all have some rusting inside (and a couple have rusted scratches); all have mild denting (like, where somebody maybe hit them with a rubber mallet to put them on); and all show signs of use. If they were to be re-plated, all would need some mild undenting and some de-rusting. Is there anyplace you're aware of that does this without it costing a week's wages? My local custom-plating places want upwards of $100 per hubcap for plating alone, plus additional cost for rust removal and smoothing of dents. I feel like going to the catalog aftermarket is a sort of defeat. I'd like to Keep It Original. Or should I just suck it up, use a chrome polish from my FLAPS, and remember that it's a 40-year-old car? Bert Knupp in Music City USA |__n__ (_)º (Ô\_|_/Ô) ü ° ° ü Polizeikäfer '70 __ Information from ESET Smart Security, version of virus signature database 4149 (20090611) __ The message was checked by ESET Smart Security. http://www.eset.com ___ vintagvw site list vintagvw@lists.sjsu.edu http://lists.sjsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/vintagvw ___ vintagvw site list vintagvw@lists.sjsu.edu http://lists.sjsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/vintagvw
