Slack adjusters

[deere150]

How do I remove slack adjusters without knackering them, brake rod is seized solid at the brake end and I'd like it all to bits to clean it down, planning on putting grease nipples on, like the commercial ones have

 

[Mursal]

Take the clip off the end of the shaft, clean well and the slack adjuster will tap off the shaft

 

[Right-arm fast]

Take of the drum and remove the brake shoes. Put a pipe over the brake lever and lever it back and forth with some penetrating oil liberally applied at the same time to free it up where it goes through the brake back plate. Then do as Mursal says and the brake lever should slide of the spline on the shaft . Will need some good penetrating fluid maybe heat with the gas if seized solid on the splines.

 

[deere150]

Yeah drum and brake shoes are off, it'll need heat it's tight. Once I get slack adjusters off I'll be away

 

[Mursal]

Be careful with the heat, some shafts are on nylon bushes

 

[Half Pipe]

If slack adjuster doesn't want to come off without damage, cut the support plate off axle, that will let brake shaft move through brake drum enough to clean it properly.
Plate easily welded back on.

 

[Jetemp]

Personally if You think that you will need heat to get the slack adjusters off I wouldn’t re use them.
they are relatively cheap to buy depending on style they could be replaced for somewhere in the region of £20 per unit from a truck parts suppliers hey really arent worth the risk

 

[Mur Huwcun]

Personally if You think that you will need heat to get the slack adjusters off I wouldn’t re use them.
they are relatively cheap to buy depending on style they could be replaced for somewhere in the region of £20 per unit from a truck parts suppliers hey really arent worth the risk

This. We wasted hours last year removing some seized in back plate shafts that was stopping a drum coming off as the shoes were also rusted to the drum. Many times I said If I were still working in professional garage the shaft would of been gas axed off after first ten minutes and the job lot replaced. Time is money with a lot of these jobs. Yes there’s a lot of satisfaction in unseizing and cleaning everything up but commercial parts are dirt cheap compared to agri.

 

[tomlad]

My experience of unseizing shafts , using squerty wd40 is u may get it loose today but leave if idle for few month itul seize again . Get if in pieces propper then copper slip or symular.
Throttle linkage on mates murhill a5000 shovel is a pillark , should have bin fully off and grease nipples fitted years ago ,but never got round to it.

 

[deere150]

Personally if You think that you will need heat to get the slack adjusters off I wouldn’t re use them.
they are relatively cheap to buy depending on style they could be replaced for somewhere in the region of £20 per unit from a truck parts suppliers hey really arent worth the risk

I'm more thinking of needing heat at the drum end, but if I can't get the slack adjusters moved I'll butcher them

 

[Jetemp]

I'm more thinking of needing heat at the drum end, but if I can't get the slack adjusters moved I'll butcher them

are they not plastic bushes that the s cam passes through in the back of the drum?