Back at it this morning with these 1939 front hubs/drums. The drums were frozen on the shoes from sitting half sunk for 25+ years. As you can see, they needed a little motivation to remove them. I began by using a big hammer to knock out the wheel studs. Once I got them out, I used a cold chisel to separate the hub from the drum since someone else had already beat the hub up pretty good. In the process of knocking out studs, somehow I broke my mini sledge. Someone tell my wife that I wasn't complaining about the studs for nothing, even the hammer gave up. Anyway, the head is loose on the handle so I'll make a trip to Lowes this afternoon for a new one. Cant win for losing. Hub #2 game me a little fit. I wasn't thinking when I drove the stud down with the lug nut still on and must have deformed the threads on the stud or the nut and using my impact it spun in the hub. Ended up needing to cut it off with an angle grinder. Last photo is everything that I am keeping bagged up and ready for a 5 gallon bucket coffin.
I figure that you cant have too many of these consumable spare parts. It's like land, they don't make any more.
On a positive note, the hammer head didn't fly off while motivating hub #2 so that can be my win for the day.
