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Thanks ,for the advice . Had decided that the M39 manual was not right for me, but will start studying. as for the grease for the rears, guess I am going to brake down and get those huge sockets. Will have to fugue out the cork plugs.... only Jeep would come up with that.
Speaking of no grease, the fronts were just fine with grease, all of the rears were bathed in axle oil, guess your saying I have multiple problem, first, it’s not supposed to have axle oil out to that bearing on the rear axles and 2nd should be coated with grease.
Well I have finished my brake job on the M51, had a learning curve with it, thought would tell my side of it.
To start with I was losing brake fluid, having to watch the level all the time . This is a old system with a single master cylinder. So as soon as the fluid drops out of the master you...
I was able to finish my job the other day. One side the drum slid right off. The other side was hard, no real way to get behind the drum to help it off. Ended up putting a couple of the lug nuts back on and used my mondo puller to ease it off, that actually worked well. Used tie down straps...
So I have 1969 M51 dump truck, Losing brake fluid and best I can tell I think it’s on the front axle, I know I have axle seals leaking on the front as well.
My problem is I can’t get the drum off.
Hoping you have a technique
So far I have used a 10 ton puller that I had jerry rig using...