I know this is an old thread, but I am having a similar issue. I need replacement front drums for my Runner and the ones I see online don't have the hub on them. How do I remove the hubs off my old drums and press them onto the new drums?
It is there to suppress vibration.
Mike. why do you think you need to replace the hub? (They usually do not separate from the drum).
How big are your drums? If they are the same size as mine, I'm going to put disk brakes on mine. You can have the drums.
That should be the same as mine. How big of a hurry are you in?
) and off it came. The hub separated nicely. I may still be interested in buying your drums when you do the conversion if you don't plan on keeping them. I replaced the rear wheel cylinders and bought a pneumatic bleeder to bleed the brakes. I don't have anyone to help me bleed them, so I thought it would easier. In the past, I would bleed brakes by leaning something heavy against the brake pedal and open a bleeder, close it and then set the brake pedal up again. It's slow but it works. I noticed I wasn't getting any brake fluid to the rear brakes. Working my way back from the wheel cylinder to the distribution block on the rear end then to the rubber brake hose and everything was dry. Then I disconnected the brake line coming into the rubber brake hose and found fluid. So the rubber brake hose was clogged. Probably deteriorated from the inside. I replaced the rubber hose and replaced the rear brake lines using stainless lines. Trying to bleed them now and went through 1.5 cans of fluid and still getting very fine air bubbles. It may be the pneumatic bleeder is sucking in some air, can't tell. I'll probably end up going back to the old bleeding method and see if it improves. Let me know how your project is going. Take care. Mike