We have had issues with salt as well. My father lived in NW Ontario
where they salt the roads more than they do here in Manitoba. He had a
Datsun pickup truck back in the early to mid 70's that seemed to have
fading brakes. A bit of a check showed that the wheel cylinders in both
rear brakes were siezed solid. Fortunately, replacements were fairly
cheap and available. Had never seen anything like that in many years of
driving GM of Ford pickups.
Randy
On 26/10/2011 2:25 PM, Michael Canfield wrote:
Up here in NY, the land of road salt and rust, I have had to destroy
countless amounts of parts trying to remove them. I have had aluminum
wheels frozen on so bad that they would not budge after being dropped on the
ground at an angle with a payloader.......lol
Most curious thing I ever saw from rust was my friends 85 300td. He bought
it after it sat for a few years, it was rusty but ran great. He started
driving it but the brakes were terrible. Pulled the front wheels off and
both rotors were rusted so bad that the disc part was broken free from the
hub part making big steel frisbees out of them. They were suspended in the
partially frozen calipers so it had no front brakes at all but had a great
pedal.
I could go on and on about rust around here.........
Mike
On Oct 26, 2011 2:04 PM, "Mitch Haley"<m...@voyager.net> wrote:
Rich Thomas wrote:
On my old Blazer the center of the wheel fit tightly over a flange on the
brake rotor or housing, and would weld itself to that part so that getting
the wheel off was a major exercise. The first time I dealt with it my
neighbor, who owned a gear-making business, brought me a huge gear puller
which I managed to fit over the little slots in one wheel that was
completely welded by rust, and then I went at it with PBBlaster, then a
propane torch while cranking on the puller. After a few minutes and some
significant torque on the puller the wheel finally popped off. When I put
it back I used some anti-seize but they were all still difficult to get off
whenever I had to deal with a tire.
I've never had a wheel I couldn't take off by loosening the lugs and
driving a couple of figure 8s. I've bent/ruined a brake rotor or two by
taking them off with a gear puller or gear puller and torch, but usually
when I remove a rotor I'm ready to replace it with new anyway.
Mitch.
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