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On the TA, TB, TC, and TF, the rear brake drum is removed after pulling off the grease cap and knuckle nut, etc., then pulling off the drum.
But on the TD with standard steel ("disk") wheels ... the drum and hub and pressed together on a tapered shaft.
Being a frugal Yankee, I didn't want to buy a puller, so neighbor and I pulled together some stuff found around our workshops..
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We used the wheel itself as the base, then ran two threaded rods through a piece of steel and back behind the wheel, held with nuts.
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Tightened down the front nuts to add tension, tapped that center point lightly with BFH a few times - and the drum popped right off that pressed fitting. You see that conical compression point at the back of the spindle.
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Now to figure out why the shoes are "sticky" - where's the fluid (it's not oil) coming from? The rear cylinders are actually hydraulic/mechanical: the parking brake cable actuates the cylinder itself to tighten the shoes. Weird - I'd never seen that before. I think the leak is inside that mechanism.
This drum/hub design makes it tougher to get to the brake parts. Can't figure out why MG did that. They didn't do that on TD wire wheels, or on the TF wire wheels.
TM
But on the TD with standard steel ("disk") wheels ... the drum and hub and pressed together on a tapered shaft.
Being a frugal Yankee, I didn't want to buy a puller, so neighbor and I pulled together some stuff found around our workshops..
View attachment 49758
​
We used the wheel itself as the base, then ran two threaded rods through a piece of steel and back behind the wheel, held with nuts.
View attachment 49759
​
Tightened down the front nuts to add tension, tapped that center point lightly with BFH a few times - and the drum popped right off that pressed fitting. You see that conical compression point at the back of the spindle.
View attachment 49760
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Now to figure out why the shoes are "sticky" - where's the fluid (it's not oil) coming from? The rear cylinders are actually hydraulic/mechanical: the parking brake cable actuates the cylinder itself to tighten the shoes. Weird - I'd never seen that before. I think the leak is inside that mechanism.
This drum/hub design makes it tougher to get to the brake parts. Can't figure out why MG did that. They didn't do that on TD wire wheels, or on the TF wire wheels.
TM
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