A slide hammer bolted under one of the wheel lug nuts usually does the trick
for me. Several aggressive tugs on the slide weight is usually all it take.
Cheers,
Lew Palmer
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-mg-t@autox.team.net [mailto:owner-mg-t@autox.team.net] On Behalf
Of Rocky Frisco
Sent: Friday, September 03, 2004 4:25 PM
To: mg-t@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: stuck brakes
Bob Howard wrote:
> Andrew,
> You might try slacking all the adjusters, then spraying penetrating
> oil around the backing plates into the drums. More will be wasted than
> gets in there, but it's worth a try if you consider the brake linings to
> be spoiled anyway. When you have got in as much as you think possible,
> tap the drums with a hammer and block of wood. You might also remove the
> hub nut and crank up a wheel puller, leaving it in place for a couple of
> days and whacking the drums with a hammer every time you think of it.
> This sounds like an unusually great amount of rust--after all, the
> front shoes are not in contact with the drums even if hand brake is left
> on, and for the fronts to be stuck also is not common.
> Frequently, if the clutch works OK, one can start the engine and let
> its might unstick brakes. Since there may have been so much rust growing
> in the car, I would want to put oil into the cylinders and turn the
> engine with the starting handle, as a basic check that rust has not
> formed in the cylinder left with a valve open.
> Sorry that this is more likely to be three days of hard labor on the
> Labor Day weekend than three days happy motoring.
It's possible you might get them unstuck without the oil and thus save
the shoes. I would remove each wheel in turn, back off the adjusters
and apply rotary force with a bar on the wheel-studs (if you have disc
wheels) while whacking the drums with a knock-off (copper-faced)
hammer. This is obviously easier with two people.
-Rock http://www.rocky-frisco.com
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