[Farmall] FINALLY!!! F-12 Brake Drums

[Karl Olmstead]

Good work, Dan!  I've never recovered a brake shoe intact; they always 
crumble.  So maybe your technique is better than mine.

-Karl
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> Karl - did just like you recommended.  One drum came off fairly readily
> within 30 minutes.  But the other one took six weeks.
>
> Lots of heat, then lot's of penetrating fluid every couple days,
> followed by hammer knocking, and attempt to turn the bolts on the
> puller.  Kept rounding the bolt heads as everything was still tight.
> Monday night it budged then couldn't get anymore movement.  Last night,
> it seemed like lots of fluid knocks with the hammer all around would
> enable one or two turns on one bolt.  Then repeat.
>
> Had a borrowed slide hammer that would have worked with the puller, but
> the steel wheel's hub was in the way of the slide handle.  Though it
> might have gone quicker with the hammer, wasn't desperate enough to
> remove the wheel.
>
> Anyhow, no broken shoes or drums.  Drums are fairly pitted inside, but
> otherwise not worn/grooved.