[amishman]

Question,, I'm doing a complete rebuild of the brakes, I got a tool to cut the swage off the studs of old hubs, pressed out the studs, got new cast iron drum from Synder's, but now I don't have a press large enough to swage the new studs into the new drums. I talked to the machinist at NAPA machine shop near where I work, He wondered why they have to be swaged, if they are trapped between the hub and wheel when the lug nuts are tighten. I said I wasn't sure , but I ask the experts.