[Vwdiesel] Riders side rear wheel

[James Hansen]

Most likely the pins are laying there somewhere. When you pull  with the puller, the majority of the stress gets transfered to the backing plate via those missing pins, because the shoes try to go with the drums, that are trying to leave in an un-natural direction that the pins are supposed to prevent.  Lotsa stress on the backing plate and brake cylinder too, be sure it didn't bend before the pins expired.  Just bend it back if it is.  Yeah, they are quite the fight... easier if you can get to the slack adjuster wedges, but if you can't you can't.
-j

-----Original Message-----
From: Vwdiesel [mailto:vwdiesel-bounces at vwfans.com] On Behalf Of Doug Boes
Sent: September-11-16 3:48 PM
To: vwdiesel at vwfans.com
Subject: [Vwdiesel] Riders side rear wheel

Finally got a large enough puller to pull the drum but it didn't come off w/o a fight. Had to turn the puller a little, hammer w/rubber mallet & turn the puller a little more until it "popped". Then walked the drum off the shoes. The shoe hold down pins are gone! The springs and the hold down clips were there but no pins. The inner seal popped out during the drum removal.
So, will be replacing the inner seal and ordered a hardware kit. Thought about swapping shoes but the rear shoe has the E-Brake lever and will require removal and installation on the other shoe to complete the swap.

I plan to repack the bearings with synthetic grease.

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