At 11:15 PM 6/8/98 -0700, Mark McCulley wrote:
>At 12:51 AM 6/9/98 EDT, Tim Gardner wrote:
>>Today I checked out my Bentley manuel and noticed that sussposidly to do the
>>rear shoes you need to use a wheel puller?  I then went outside with my father
>>and checked out the brakes and how to get at them.  Im not sure if this is
>>syncro spectfic but there is a pin that holds a large nut and the hub.  Now
>>this must be removed inorder to replace the rear shoes?  Do I need the wheel
>>puller or can I just bend the pin, take it out and unscrew the nut that holds
>>the hub on?  Please help me out with how to do this.  Thank you for any
>>information.
>>
>Yes, you do have to remove the hub to replace the rear shoes. Before jacking
>the car up, remove the cotter pin and loosen the axel nut. You will need the
>proper socket (46mm I think) and a big breaker bar to get this sucker
>loose--it's torque spec is 369 ft lbs. Break both axel nuts loose while all
>the wheels are on the ground. Then follow the procedure detailed in the
>Bentley manual. You might want to consider having the drums turned and
>rebuilding wheel cylinders if that hasn't been done for a while.
>
>After putting things back together, get the axel nuts good and tight before
>lowering the van and then be sure torque them to spec with the rear wheels
>back on the ground.
>
Oops, I made a mistake in my post. I recall now that when I did my brakes I
removed the axel nut _after_ the van was raised and the wheel removed. I
kept the hub from turning by wedging my breaker bar between a couple of the
studs (unthreaded part) and the ground.

MM