Decided to check out why there was no RH brake on the last 175D that I bought. Of course it is on the "difficult" side. I decided to try this setup to get the hydraulic controls out of the way.
The cylinder pin slid right out with a little nudge from my hammer and chisel. Bracket came off in no time.
This is the bolt that holds the cylinder bracket on and is behind the cylinder pin. I drive the chisel between the head of this bolt and the cylinder pin from the hole in the front of the bracket.
The cylinder bracket has to be removed to access this pin that holds the bottom of the brake bands. I use a half inch bolt, washers and a big nut to pull the pin. This one came out pretty easy without heat. The top pin was another story, I heated it up orange 3 times, finally torched off the brake bands so I could get a large vice grips on it. Then I got the whole pin red hot and used the vicegrips to twist it. As it cooled it finally broke loose....but now I had a bend in it, so had to torch a section out of the middle, took the inside piece out with the vicegrips and drove the outer piece into the housing with a hammer and punch.
No wonder I had no brakes...bands were just steel and the drum was ground down 1/4" undersize. Fortunately I have spare parts from other tractors and a stash of new linings.
Top view after everything was removed.
Found a spot to hang the cylinder....
Hopefully tomorrow I will get it all back together. Ironically this came in the mail today, the company I bought my little rivet tool from 3 or 4 years ago to replace the linings.
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