Hello A. Berg,

Brake shoes can wear a small grove in the drum and then sit in that
grove preventing the removal of the drum.  Make sure you do the idiot
checks, like nut make sure the nut is off. :)  

There should be a rubber plug on the back portion of the brakes.  This
prevents dust from getting in.  Using break adjustment tools, or a
couple small flat-heads, rotate the adjust inward.  You'll know what
direction, by the fact that "outward" will lock it up fast.  Do a
couple adjustments and then check the drum.  That should do it.

Something else, I'm no expert, and not one to spend hours on saving
something I can replace; so, I would probly just replace the whole
assembly, they are ugly looking.  Might just save you time if you can
scavenge some out of a junk yard.  

hth,

tom

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It might be rusted on around the center hub, or even around the lug
bolts.  Spray a penetrant on it ( a good one, not WD40).  Let it soak,
then beat the crap put of it with a heavy hammer.  If the drum breaks,
then it was weak anyhow, and you will have to replace it.

Is this a trick question?

If that is the photo, you might try popping off the dust cover and
removing the big nut inside the cap that is holding the drum on....

Mike
86/00 CJ7 Laredo, 33x9.5 BFG Muds, 'glass nose to tail in '00
88 Cherokee 235 BFG AT's

Mike has it right, it sure looks to me like the drum is a press fit on the
hub, and the bearings get disassembled to remove it.   Treat it like the
front wheels on an old rear wheel drive Chrysler product with drum brakes
where the drum was integral with the hub.  Be sure to get new grease seals
so you can wash out and repack the bearings when assembling.

In the event this -had- been a car where the drum does separate from the
hub, like the front wheels on an old GM rear wheel drive car, one method is
to loosen the lugnuts about one full turn, then get in the car and let it
roll back and forth a couple of times, gently slamming on the brakes at the
end of each cycle.  Then if it still does not want to come off, get a BFH
(Big F'n Hammer) and gently beat on the cast iron rim part of the drum, not
from behind out, but from the outside in towards the center of the car, in
three or four places around the drum.  It should come right off.  Do not use
heat.

Lee Richardson

looks a bit like ones that i've worked on and hated in the past.
by the photos it looks like the 6mm screw that secures the drum to the
hub has sheared off in place, but the drum should have a 8mm thread on
it where that 6mm screw goes. use a 8mm bolt on that to behave as a
puller against the hub. there should be 2 holes on the drum with 8mm
threads but that has some serious corrosion, so bad that you've got no
chance of seeing the inside edge of the drum where it connects against
the hub.

I have a webcam in the tropics
http://ii.net/~farmerjim/

Back of the brake adjustment.

mike hunt