Rear brake drum puller

I've got the original offset D-44 on my rig. The one with the tapered axle spindles. After a hard day of wheelin' on Sunday I got it home and I'm leaking brake fluid down the inside of the passenger tire. Time to replace/rebuild the brake cylinders.

The rear brakes are about the only thing I haven't been through yet mainly because I've never acquired the puller for the rear drums. I remember seeing an article about the operation and it showed a puller that attached to the outside of the brake drum. I'm game, but couldn't find such an animal on Northern, JC Whitney or Harbor Freight.

Does anyone know where I can find a brake drum puller for the tapered axle Dana 44? Can I use a standard puller that bolts up to the lug bolts?

 

Well if that's the case, my life just got easier. I'll take a closer look at it. I thought the drum was pressed onto the tapered and splined axle.

 

they may be swedged studs, mine are (I found out after an hour or two of frustration). You will need to either buy a special tool for the swedge removal, or take them in, complete with hub, to be pressed off. I think some people have done it themselves, but I don't have that kind of patience or tools.

 

Very cool. Thanks for the link. Full floating rear is on my list, and the write up tells me what I need to do for my brake work. I hope the link still works by the time my kids are through college, because that's the projected timeline. Thanks again!

 

It's a '67 so they're supposed to be 10", but you know how that goes. I've discovered plenty of anomalies regarding what's supposed to be on vs. what's really on. I'm going to measure it up tonight and take another look at the drum with the wheel off.

 

my rear nine inchers come off seperate of the hub. Maybe it is different than others due to it being an M38 axle, but I doubt it. It just has the three screws holding it on to the hub flange.

 

At long last I got around to trying to repair the rear brake cylinder. I've got the 9" brakes. No screws holding the drum on. I bought a puller. The kit that I bought has a slide hammer and the screw type apparatus. I used both of them.

NOTHING DOING! Couldn't get the drum off to save my life. Went through a half can of liquid wrench. Beat on it. What in the heck am I missing? I saw something earlier in the thread about taking it in to be pressed off. What am I supposed to take in? The whole rear differential? Nothing's coming off at this point.

 

I don't think you want to pound on the lugs...something about tearing up bearings/axle housing?

I feel your pain Ugly. I have a set of 11" drums for the rear boxed up in my garage because I don't look forward to getting my 10" swagged/swedged (whatever their called) drums off.

I am thinking I am gonna pay to have the job done (gasp). I had my mechanic do the front 11" brakes and he charged me less than one of those pullers would cost, and that included repacking the bearings, making new mounts for the brake hoses, etc.

 

This would work, http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/Hub-...hZ002QQitemZ4646373324QQrdZ1QQsspagenameZWDVW
I paid alot more for mine, http://www.mytoolstore.com/otc/7394.html but nothing and I mean nothing else works.

 

So let me get this straight. My puller ain't big enough? I use 2" wheel spacers. I put my spacer back on and attached the screw type puller to the spacer, because otherwise it wouldn't fit. Then I torqued down on the puller with a breaker bar. The puller was distorting (lifting up) off of the wheel spacer. I figured I was gonna break something so I stopped.

The puller you recommend looks pretty beefy, and it looks like you can hammer on the screw lever. Is that the deal? If that's the case I'll probably just take it in because I don't need to spend $100+ for a puller that I'll only use until I do my brake upgrade.

 

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I called around the local rental businesses, found one that rents automotive related tools, rented one of the heavy-duty hub/wheel pullers like pictured in previous posts. $10 for a day's use. This after trying two different lighter pullers, one of them the slide type.

The H.D. puller had a hex head on the drive part, put a 300 ft.lb. air wrench on that and used an acetylene torch to heat up the hub.

Got both hubs & drums off both sides of my 67 CJ. Even with the H.D. puller and heat, it was still a real chore. Nothing lighter would do the trick. Before laying out lots of $, try the rental businesses in your area!

By the way, my 67 needed wheel cylinders too. It has 10" drums.