Make sure parking break is off. There are two small screw holes in the drum. Go to an auto parts store and get a selection (two each size) of metric bolts that are close to that size. Find the ones that fit and hand start one in each hole. Bolts should screw in easily. screw in bolts until tight with a wrench and tap lightly on the the drum on the outside edges going all the way around. You may need to do this retighten and tap again around the drum. This should loosen the drum from the rear axle plate.
Discs in the front and drums in the back.
How do you remove rear brake drum from a 1993 Toyota pickup?
To remove the drum, beat it mercilessly with a very large hammer.
1. For your own safety, put stoppers on the other 3 wheels. DO NOT put the foot (hand) brake on or you will have difficulty in removing the brake drum. 2. jack and remove the wheel. 3. pull the drum off and rock and tap slightly if there are rusts or debris that preventing the drum pull out, no hammer is necessary! There are two 8x1.25mm threaded bolt holes in each drum that you can run bolts through and it will push off the drum. Just changed my rear brake shoes last weekend and this worked perfectly to get the rusty drums loose.
if your van has rear drum brakes, adjust them up until there is a slight drag on the brakes. this usually does the trick to tighten up the parking brake.
You need to use a heavy hammer, but be careful not crack the drum itself. Just make sure that you work it your from two opposite sides, for instance, up and bottom.
You have to loose nuts and lift your car up. Then remove a wheel. There are two ways to remove brake drums. First using a hammer. Knocking the drum with a hammer in the direction opposite from the car. And second more efficient is to find two screws which fit threades in removing drum holes (two holes in a drum with a thread in it).
there are 2 holes in the drum that are threaded. find a couple bolts that thread into them. while tightening them occasionally tap on the drum lightly to pop it loose. keep threading the bolts in until the drum falls off.
There are two types. If there are two scxrew holes in the face of the drum, run the appropriate sized screw into them and force the drum away from the axel. The newer ones require you to remove the nut and axel bearing, then it comes off easily.
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how do remove the brake drum on a 1991 mazda 323
it was a congo drum