Asking for a friend. I am not familiar with the truck he is working on. I told him about this site and the wonderful people here who are always so eager to help a fella out, but not sure he was able to get signed up and vetted to post the inquiry. Without the manuals like I have for my 40 half ton, I was not much help to him but thought I would ask here. What steps, and are there any special tools needed to remove the rear drums on a 1950 ton and a half truck? From what we could find, you remove the plate to expose a threaded hole in the axle, then use a threaded slide hammer to pull the axle??? If that is correct, then what?