Rear drum well seized to wheel!

17th January 2011, 17:14

Right stupidly agreed to do the rear shoes on a saxo I'm selling to a mate

Tunes out they didn't even need doing now but iv opened myself a nice can of worms!

The rear wheel would not come off the hub! It's had the brakes done in 2007 and problslby not been off since tbh!

Tried the usual hit all way round back n front with rubber mallet! Moving it with bolts slightly loose everything wouldn't budge!

So thought fuck it the drums are bound to be the same so il play them off against each other see what gives up first! So undid the drum nut etc! Fucking drum fell off virtually compared to what iv seen them like before!

So now iv got the drum stuck on the wheel and can't get it off! At all tried all sorts! Blow torch,hitting it more,currently soaking in wd40 probes won't do fuck all but thought worth a try

Last thing I can think of is put 2 bolts back in wheel and twat them and see if that will push the drum off the wheel!? But I don't wonna risk fucking the bolt threads up!

Grrr fucking things

Wouldn't mind but I'm only doing it as a precaution and piece of mind for him..not even making fuck all on the car now by time iv done all this

17th January 2011, 17:16

put 2 other bolts in the drum and hit them, not good wheelnuts though, just if you have spares

17th January 2011, 17:38

Yea that's what I was thinking,don't want to fuck threads in the drum up though tbh

17th January 2011, 17:51

make sure there almost rite in then do it..........
put a bit of wood over them and hit the wood

17th January 2011, 17:54

just keep twatting it with the rubber mallet...it will, eventually come off!

17th January 2011, 18:08

Quote:

Originally Posted by tonto_VTR

just keep twatting it with the rubber mallet...it will, eventually come off!

They dont all come off!!
Dont **** about is the answer

17th January 2011, 19:46

Well tried 2 bolts in hub twitted like a bastard....nothing still just gonna attempt to put it all back on tomorrow and he will have to buy a new drum when he changes wheels

17th January 2011, 20:01

tbf, if you could get the drum off, why didnt you heat the inside of the drum, therfor not fucking up the wheel?

chances are though, now you have use Oxyacetylene you may have fucked the bearing on the drum too.

17th January 2011, 20:16

That's on my car

and it dont have rear drums

I cut mine off as we had no other option, it had tuner nuts fitted and they had all cracked, plus I was replacing all my wheels, brakes and hubs

17th January 2011, 20:17

Yea that's another thing I'm worried about fucking the bearing up

And iv been heating the inside of the dum aswell

17th January 2011, 22:12

Well still no luck gonna smash fuck out of it in morning till it gives in or my arm falls off

18th January 2011, 00:45

Offering to fix saxo's for people on the cheap or for free always seems to end up a nightmare

If you have no luck or break your arm, take the wheel to a garage and get them to press it out with a 10 million ton press?

18th January 2011, 11:48

Yea tell me about it lol

And still not managed to get it apart! The bearing has now fell apart grrrr

So took a drum off my 106 upgrading that to a gti beam anyway...just doing it sooner than I thought now lol

18th January 2011, 12:37

if u got the wheel off and the drums still stuck to it.....turn the wheel upside down so that the wheelnuts are facing you - put the 4 bolts back on but dont tighten them - now whack fuck out of each of the nuts and the drum should simply fall away....

18th January 2011, 16:12

I was doing that and it didn't 'simply fall way'

After constant twitting it wrecked a wheel,used a blow torch full of gas nearly and caused me 2 blood blisters!

Was well and truly seized to the drum

Only way of getting it out now would be press,but just scrapping that and the wheel now changed drum all sorted now so all good

19th January 2011, 13:09

bigger hammer needed lol

21st January 2011, 16:37

Lol left it now let some gypo have it for scrap with a bonnet and some other bits I had