A simple wheel swap ended up being a frustrating affair this eve. My son and I were taking the Welds off and putting on the TT II's. Well a stud on the right rear turned out to be stripped. I ended up hammering the stripped stud out, in hind sight, I should have just grounded it down to good threads with the grinder like I started too. Anyway after knocking it loose and into the brake I discovered the drum will not come off. Then found out the adjuster is frozen solid. No matter how much I hammer, poke and prod it will not turn :mad: Now what? Do I air chisel the brake pins off? Open the bleeder? If I can't get the brakes to get smaller the drum ain't coming off? Any ideas???????

no one removes the stud on a rear axle without having the drum off. you may have gotten the stud caught in the brake hardware. To remove the drum, you can rent a brake drum puller to try, but they have been known to break the lid off of drums. Grind off gently only the brake shoe pins from the back, do not chisel them off as you will damage the backing plates and try to remove the drum or lastly, use your axle puller on the remaining studs once you remove the c clip (if c clip axles) or nuts on housing axle bolts in the differential. One of these should work.