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Stopping is always nice. I remember pulling my left rear for the first time, I had to rent a drum puller, three jaws with a jack screw. I had the drum bowed considerably before I took a rawhide mallet and beat the hell out of the center. When it finally went it sprung off about 4 feet to the side. Drums and shoes had to be replaced, both drums were warped and had been turned before, lots of rust, too. Your ball joints might be loose, but check that upper stabilizer bar, particularly if you haven't adjusted it before. Details in Bentley. If it's loose, it can hammer your front axle assembly terribly. If you do the classic full-flow filter install, it's not a one day deal. First, you have to have the engine out of the car. Drill and tap the case, preferably with the engine torn down so you can wash the cuttings out. Clearance the fittings and the fan housing, clearance the engine mount for the oil pump cover fitting, clean everything up and put back together with the new, blocked oil pump, then find a suitable area under the car to mount the filter, route the hoses and fabricate the filter mount. I was building a new engine when I did mine, but just the clearancing took most of a week of evenings with just a file and hacksaw to work with. I didn't cut a hole in the back of the fan housing to clear the fittings, just did some careful filing on both fittings and housing and used lots of spotting blue to see where things were touching. I don't believe in cutting holes where there were none in critical(and hard to get) parts if I can help it. Things are very tight in there, not like a Bug where it looks like you could just swap parts with the engine in the car. It is a worthwhile thing to do, though. On Tue, 08 Sep 1998 22:42:43 -0500, you wrote: >Hello all, > >Redoing the rear brakes after 30 years was quite an experience. >Couldn't back off the adjusting stars because of all the brake crud. >Rented a slap hammer and bolted it to the drum. After beating the hell >out of this I added a torch and broke the drums free. Definitely the >original stuff. Sheared off a new bleeder bolt but canabalized one of >the old wheel cylinders and finally bled it out and voila!, she STOPS. >Noticed when I got up to speed though that there was poor on center feel >and a little wandering as I motored down the road. Fair wind, and with >sagging rear end and empty trunk, I wonder if this could be responsible >versus ball joint problems. Not too much movement when I pull on the >top of the tire. Also, is it a big deal to add on the oil filter kit? >Thanks for your patience. > >regards, > >Kevin > >68 fastback > >------------------------------------------------------------------- >Too much? Digest! mailto:type3-d-request@vwtype3.org Subj=subscribe