Front brake drum puller.

[Ovally]

About 10 years ago I replaced the ball bearings with roller bearings and now it is difficult to remove the front drums.

VW used this puller to remove the front brake drums.

Would this Gedore puller work?
https://www.gedore.com/en-at/products/puller-tools...--8025300#

Thanks.
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VW Bug 1200 D motor
Porsche 911S MFI 1970
Mazda 929 Hardtop 1977
Mercedes SLC 180 Roadster 2018

[Dan22]

Sure. As long as it pushes on the spindle. Hard to tell with that picture what it is pushing on.
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[VW_Jimbo]

We would just slide hammer them off.
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[Ovally]

OK thanks, I'll see how I can fix this without destroying anything.
Never had any problems with ball bearings.The drums always came off easily.

I experience the same as "billmetric" wrote in 2008:

""I have installed the roller bearing conversion onto other customers former ball bearing cars and I personally wouldn't do it to my own cars, the roller bearings tend to be such an extremely tight fit to the axle that they require some filing to get them to slide onto the axle, even with major filing the inner bearing tends to stick on the axle and pulls the seal out any time the drum needs to come back off, that gets to be a real pain when the bearing has to be pried off and if its really on there the seal can get in the way of removing the stuck bearing resulting in messing up the seal just trying to pry the bearing off the axle, theres just something about the size of the roller bearing inner diameter which is smaller than the ball bearing races, the inner races should not be a loose fit though as it will sometimes spin on the axle stub and wear down the diameter even more, I usually just hand file the axle to get a nice snug but removable fit with the inner ball bearing race then take a nice sharp center punch and make a light dimple in the axle shaft to keep the new bearing race from rotating, with the small ball bearing race it doesnt matter if it stays on the axle it will not pull the seal off every time you pull the drum""

Regards.
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VW Bug Oval 1953
VW Bug 1200 D motor
Porsche 911S MFI 1970
Mazda 929 Hardtop 1977
Mercedes SLC 180 Roadster 2018

[Ovally]

A friend made me an extractor ring with a larger outside diameter than the VW one so I could use my 3 arm puller.
The drums with the bearings came off in a straight line without damage to the grease seal.

Regards.
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VW Bug Oval 1953
VW Bug 1200 D motor
Porsche 911S MFI 1970
Mazda 929 Hardtop 1977
Mercedes SLC 180 Roadster 2018

[Busstom]

Very neat tool, it's like a hybrid of the two you showed above.
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