because other forum post on same topic was archived..
So I had your problem on my right rear rotor, same 3600 model. Would spin but would not budge. Fused to the hub. Checked shoe adjustment and brought the all the way in. Nope. 2 days of PB, no luck. Heat, no luck. Put on a scissor jack and gear puller hooks on a 3/8 chain. No joy. Drilled out the pins, no love. So then I came here, and found sage advice.
Per advisement, I put 3 nuts on. I had a left over piece of heavy pipe (metal tube) from fixing the tailwheel receiver on a bush hog and about 18" long so I could slip it over the studs. Then I beat it with a 20lb sledge, then I heat it, then I beat it, and then I heat it and beat it, then I beat it sum more and I heat it too. In case I wasn't clear, I heat it and I beat it. after 15 min, I looked down and it moved on the hub, in all that heating and beating, I had not noticed, as I was listening and looking at the place where I was hitting and not the hub because I like my fingers most when attached to my hand and not broken. I got it to move to the point where gained purchase on the outer then the inner of the hub and forced it off. Shoes came with it. Shoes still had meat on them and no groove in the drum, metallurgy was a thing in those days apparently, I see it in the lack of gear wear when replacing the PTO seal..nut gotta be honest, not a big fan of drum brakes at this point. Have em on my old Ranger. Just hate those springs, the progression of breaking force has no feel, tell me anything good about them. Can't believe Ford was still doing this into the 90s
So I had your problem on my right rear rotor, same 3600 model. Would spin but would not budge. Fused to the hub. Checked shoe adjustment and brought the all the way in. Nope. 2 days of PB, no luck. Heat, no luck. Put on a scissor jack and gear puller hooks on a 3/8 chain. No joy. Drilled out the pins, no love. So then I came here, and found sage advice.
Per advisement, I put 3 nuts on. I had a left over piece of heavy pipe (metal tube) from fixing the tailwheel receiver on a bush hog and about 18" long so I could slip it over the studs. Then I beat it with a 20lb sledge, then I heat it, then I beat it, and then I heat it and beat it, then I beat it sum more and I heat it too. In case I wasn't clear, I heat it and I beat it. after 15 min, I looked down and it moved on the hub, in all that heating and beating, I had not noticed, as I was listening and looking at the place where I was hitting and not the hub because I like my fingers most when attached to my hand and not broken. I got it to move to the point where gained purchase on the outer then the inner of the hub and forced it off. Shoes came with it. Shoes still had meat on them and no groove in the drum, metallurgy was a thing in those days apparently, I see it in the lack of gear wear when replacing the PTO seal..nut gotta be honest, not a big fan of drum brakes at this point. Have em on my old Ranger. Just hate those springs, the progression of breaking force has no feel, tell me anything good about them. Can't believe Ford was still doing this into the 90s
