Steiner Brake Pin Removal Tool
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Topic: Steiner Brake Pin Removal Tool
Posted By: 1terrygladys
Subject: Steiner Brake Pin Removal Tool
Date Posted: 08 Sep 2016 at 9:13am
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I was looking at the Steiner Tractor Parts site and found a special Brake Pin Removal Tool for AC WDs, WD-45s and early D17s. Wondering if anyone had ever used one. I need to replace brake pads on my wd-45 and know these pins can be very difficult to remove. Don't want to spend $68.45 + shipping on a tool that doesn't work well. Thanks for your replies! God bless. Terry ------------- WD-45, WD, Unstyled WC, SC Disk, JD 4430D, JD 4010D, JD B, Iowa pastor & disciple of Jesus Christ |
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Posted By: CTuckerNWIL
Date Posted: 08 Sep 2016 at 9:53am
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Start by soaking the pin with your fav panther Pi$$. Give it a shot every few days for as long a time as you have to put the job off. I think several guys have used the "store bought " ones, and some have made their own version. Some have worked the pins out after soaking and some just reach inside and cut the pin and drive it in to cut it again until the brake shoe can be removed. This might call for long sleeved welding shirt and some good gloves. ------------- http://www.ae-ta.com" rel="nofollow - http://www.ae-ta.com Lena 1935 WC12xxx, Willie 1951 CA6xx Dad bought new, 1954WD45 PS, 1960 D17 NF |
Posted By: Stan IL&TN
Date Posted: 08 Sep 2016 at 10:30am
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Soaking the pin and patience is your best bet. Only if you do these brake jobs for a living where time is money would buying the tool make sense to me. Soaking, heat and a small pipe wrench worked for me. ------------- 1957 WD45 dad's first AC 1968 one-seventy 1956 F40 Ferguson |
Posted By: Fred in Pa
Date Posted: 08 Sep 2016 at 11:07am
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If u have a touch set U have the tool u need ------------- He who dies with the most toys is, nonetheless ,still dead. If all else fails ,Read all that is PRINTED. |
Posted By: shameless (ne)
Date Posted: 08 Sep 2016 at 3:40pm
| does Rachel come with it? |
Posted By: WDDave
Date Posted: 08 Sep 2016 at 4:25pm
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shamless, that is a good question LOL. Any way I would say they would work I didn't buy one but made my own. I recently did the brakes on my WD,    ------------- WD ,wide front, with loader |
Posted By: Dave in PA
Date Posted: 08 Sep 2016 at 4:40pm
And if she did??? Would ya go out and buy a wd? |
shameless (ne) wrote:Posted By: GaryL
Date Posted: 08 Sep 2016 at 6:38pm
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$68 is cheap compared to a lot of swearing and fighting old parts. I recently replaced the trailing arm bushings in my Mazda 3 which required a $200 special tool. Overall, that tool saved me a lot of time and frustration, not to mention I can always sell it down the road and recoup a majority of my funds. So, you could buy the tool, use it once, and then sell it in the classifieds (*hint*) to someone who will be doing a WD brake job down the road.
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Posted By: DougS
Date Posted: 08 Sep 2016 at 7:31pm
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You're still going to have to soak the pin. Lest you break the head off the pin with the tool. |
Posted By: Tim NH
Date Posted: 08 Sep 2016 at 7:39pm
I just pulled one brake pin out, w/ a puller I made. Took me about 2 hours to get it out. I quickly found after slamming the weight , I couldn't move the brake shoes. So I moved them both back and forth. Then slam the weight 3 or 4 times, then loosen brakes again. I just kept doing that till it came out. I did use a torch w/ mapp gas at first. There is a lot of steel around that pin. So I don't know how effective that was. I have $18.00 in the puller.  ------------- 1950 WD 1959 D14 1955 WD45 1976 7000 B 207 |
Posted By: 1terrygladys
Date Posted: 08 Sep 2016 at 8:38pm
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Thank you all for your help. Your experience and skills are awesome. Thank you for sharing. This forum is awesome! Shameless, I didn't see any note in the online catalog about Rachael coming with the tool. I'm certain it would have a decidedly higher price if she did. That girl is a good, and she reminds me of my daughter. I will probably buy one of the tools, or make my own, like you guys did. THANK YOU! God bless, Terry ------------- WD-45, WD, Unstyled WC, SC Disk, JD 4430D, JD 4010D, JD B, Iowa pastor & disciple of Jesus Christ |
Posted By: MACK
Date Posted: 08 Sep 2016 at 9:27pm
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If the pin is halfway free, any puller will pull it, BUT if the pin is TIGHT, all the pullers in the world will not move it.
I would not give 15 cents for all the pullers out there. Drill a 3/4 hole in a piece of 1/4x1 1/4x24 flat iron, Slide Over pin and weld. After heating and soaking for a time, start working back and forth. If pin don'
t move, twist head off and get the torch after the pin. MACK
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Posted By: shameless (ne)
Date Posted: 08 Sep 2016 at 10:17pm
| Dave...if she did, I sure would buy the tool! |
Posted By: DougS
Date Posted: 09 Sep 2016 at 7:32am
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I noticed in the Utube video of Rachel demonstrating the D-17 brake job that she didn't use the tool. She went on to say how difficult the pin removal was and how they ended up using a torch. She only mentioned the tool after the job was completed. This tells me the tool didn't work in this stubborn case. |
Posted By: shameless (ne)
Date Posted: 09 Sep 2016 at 11:42am
| maybe she didn't know about the tool til after the vid was mostly done? |
Posted By: Brian Jasper co. Ia
Date Posted: 09 Sep 2016 at 12:18pm
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What I did on mine was weld a 1/2" grade 8 bolt about as long as the pin to the head of the pin. Next a piece of pipe slipped over the bolt with an old harmonic damper bolt washer, my lug nut installing thrust bearing and pulled them quickly and easily. As much pressure as it took to pull them, I'm certain it would have been quite a battle any other way. ------------- "Any man who thinks he can be happy and prosperous by letting the government take care of him better take a closer look at the American Indian." Henry Ford |