Where the truck are my brake drum retaining screws?
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As per title really.
I've got new shoes and a sensor for my speedo to fit and I can't get my drums off.

Where I thought (and Haynes told me) were 2 retaining screws, there aren't! One is just a hole blanked off at the bottom.
The other goes all the way into the drum.

Tell me I'm just being a complete simpleton!

they are almost certainly in a bin somewhere...

Hahahaha!
I thought that might be the case!
So why wouldn't the drum come off then? I pulled, levered, hammered, swore. Nothing worked!

assuming the hand brake is off,

it may well be due to the shoe wearig the drum and leaving a lip on the inside edge,

try backing right off the square shoe adjuster on the back plate and seeing if the drum will then move.

Handbrake is off, adjuster is out pretty far (hub spins really freely, no catching at all)
I could try winding it out further and seeing if that works.

hum,

ok, where the screws "were" may be the remains of old screws that have been broken off, they would have been counter sunk screws, I have seen these where they have broken off but still hold the drum on, and so need drilling a little to release the drum.

Hmm, well that's a bugger. They were exactly the same on both sides I believe.
One hole went all the way down and the other stopped at a flat piece of metal by the look of it.
Suggests that maybe they haven't broken off; oh how frustrating!

I'll try backing the adjuster off even further!

failing that...

bigger hammer!

I'll get my mate Jack on it...

Jack couldn't come over so I just backed off the adjuster really bloody far.

...


Still nothing! Fack!

I really want this done by Friday aswell as I'm driving to Wales dammit!

can you get a pic?

There's nothing really to show to be fair.
The holes where the drum retaining screws are meant to be are too deep to show anything and the rest of it just looks like... well... a drum!

Smack the side of the drum with a mallet whilst pulling the other side. Keep turning the drum a quarter turn, hit it again and keep pulling..........

Saul Bellow - "A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep."
Stephen Hawking - "The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge."

they can be stubborn sometimes, just perservere with the mallet and theyll come off eventually

"Turbo's make torque, and torque makes fun"

"did you know you can toast potato waffles?"

Cheers guys, I'll give it a bash tomorrow (get it? See what I did there?) as I'm too tired now.
If that doesn't work I'll try and swear them off again.
If that doesn't work... fuck my new brake shoes and I'll attach the speedo sensor to the pot joint...