rear drum headaches

[neal zimmerman <neal.zimmerman@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi all ,hope I can get some answers.  Car;64 barracuda with modern 8.75 rear ( 4.5 inch bolt pattern)

  I am looking the rear brakes over before fire up, as the car has been sitting for 3 years in my carport. I  know I had the drums off a couple years ago when I swapped out the pumpkin. But now the right one is tight as hell and i cannot get it off. I know how the star wheels and levers are supposed to work and the supposed procedure for rough adjustment, but i CANNOT get the right drum to budge. I have nuked it with PB Blaster , banged it with a hammer, then a bigger hammer, tried numerous times to get in there and push off the lever and spin the star wheel, have made 3 different "modified " screwdrivers" to try to find the lever. I am getting pretty frustrated I even made sure the e-brake was not on. I suppose the starwheel could be rusted up, but this is all new stuff in there. I suppose the previous owner might have not doctored the starwheel innards with anti-sieze like I have always done. I don't know. Anybody ever gone through this? I suppose a puller of some sort might be able to yank it off and take the shoes and springs along with it

  The left one came right off.

  Neal Zimmerman, Eugene Oregon

-- 
-- 
--
Please address private email -- email of interest to only one person -- directly to that person. That is, email your parts/car transactions and negotiations, as well as other personal messages, only to the intended recipient. Do not just press "reply" and send your email to everyone using the general '62-'65 Clubhouse public email address. This practice will protect your privacy, reduce the total volume of mail and fine-tune the content signal to Mopar topic. Thanks!
 
1962 to 1965 Mopar Clubhouse Discussion Guidelines:
http://www.1962to1965mopar.ornocar.org/mletiq.html and http://www.1962to1965mopar.ornocar.com/general_disclaimer.html.
-- 
You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The 1962 to 1965 Mopar Mail List Clubhouse" group.
http://groups.google.com/group/1962to1965mopars?hl=en.
 
--- 
You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The 1962 to 1965 Mopar Mail List Clubhouse" group.
To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to 1962to1965mopars+unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.