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Brake drum Screws

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Subject: Brake drum Screws
From: "Bowen, Patrick A" <PABowen@sar.med.navy.mil>
Date: Thu, 19 Aug 1999 10:07:02 -0400
I am in the middle of rebuilding my rear suspension and have two questions.
What is the easiest way to get rid of the grease that is all over the axels
and trunnion.  Unfortuneately you cannot sandblast through grease.

The other question is.  The two screws that hold on the brake drums, how
necessary are they.  I have done brakes hundreds of times on other cars that
did not have these and were held on by the wheels and rust (or whatever).
While removing the ones on my car now all 4 were permanently rusted to the
hub.  I drilled and extracted one, the other three won't extract and I
really don't want to rethread items.  Is there a convincing argument to
bother fixing this?

Patrick Bowen

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