JPOR: Re; removing swaged on brake drums

["S. Perkio" <sperkio@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

There is a cutter that is made for this purpose, basically it's like a
holesaw without the pilot drill inserted. It removes some of the crimped
material so that the drum can be removed.

If your 68 has these, is/was it a military, or did it perhaps have the
axles swapped at sometime?

50's would have been crimped in military dress, I'm not sure about
civilian models.

BTW anyone need a narrow Jeep flanged offset 44, PTO winch, or new
Overdrive?

Perk
> From: dallas hill <hill_dallas@lanl.gov>
> Subject: JPOR: removing swaged on brake drums
> 
>         I have a 68 CJ6 with the original brake drums/cylinder.   The 
> drums are swaged on with the lug bolts.    Any know an easy way to 
> get them off?    The only way I can think of is grind the heads off 
> of the backing plate bolts and pulling the whole axle shaft/brakes 
> out and then pressing the lug bolts out.
> 
> TIA
> Dallas Hill