1940 Brake Bleeding

[mike42]

I bought a Winfield about 6 years ago and never used it. I used that to pop the drum, but it would not pull out. Once I adjusted the brakes as told to.....I just tapped lightly around the drum while pulling on it and it fell off ! I just needed to do the brake adjustment thing.

I plan on taking pictures as I looked over all the mechanisms and also drawings I got online. I think that will be a chore too !

Just got back from shop in town and they don't know if they can turn these drums. Might have to buy new, but hate to do that as there's still a lot of meat on the originals. We'll see in time, but I need to get all the shoes and cylinder out first and clean up this mess. Went through 2 cans of brake cleaner so far. I've never seen anything like this before. Gooey sludge all over the place. The shoes are soaked with fluid and oil and sludge. If I could post a photo I would, but never had any luck doing that sorry !!

Thx for all the info and I now have to start lawn clean up of leaves and acorns. Good weather here right now at 66º degrees and that's good for Northern Michigan this time off the year.

Mike