Technical Rear brake drums removal

[chilly500]

I'm wanting to clean out the rear brakes for the MOT and I've fallen at the first hurdle!
I can't get the brake drums off. They spin freely with no binding.
Is there an adjuster I need to back off or something?
(I've taken the wheel locating pins out).

 

[Westbeef]

Im not sure if yours will have it but my Punto has grease nipples that you have to remove first.

 

[dave]

a couple of light taps with a hammer near the middle should do it, if not screw bolts into the holes the wheel locating pins came out of.

Im not sure if yours will have it but my Punto has grease nipples that you have to remove first.

are you sure about that

 

[Westbeef]

a couple of light taps with a hammer near the middle should do it, if not screw bolts into the holes the wheel locating pins came out of.





are you sure about that

Well mine didn't budge till I took the nipples off

 

[dave]

Well mine didn't budge till I took the nipples off

are you sure they wasn't wheel locating pins?

 

[Westbeef]

are you sure they wasn't wheel locating pins?

They may have been I removed it in the dark and they looked like grease nipples. I'll stop giving bad advice now

 

[chilly500]

Cheers guys. So there's no adjusters to back off?
You don't have to slacken the handbrake cable off do you?

 

[dave]

shouldnt need to,

 

[PsFiat]

On a car I used to have years ago the drum brake cover popped off after gently using a screwdriver to prise it away from the backplate. It would then click back into place. Different manufacturers have their own way of securing them.

 

[jrkitching]

screw bolts into the holes the wheel locating pins came out of.

That's the method. Those two holes in the drum are threaded for that very purpose. From memory, you need bolts one size larger than the wheel locating pins.

There should be no need to slacken anything off.

Hitting the drum with a hammer or trying to prise it off with a screwdriver or tyre lever is not recommended; you risk damaging something and/or hurting yourself and it probably won't work anyway.

Using suitable bolts as extracting tools works every time (well it has for me) .