I´ve been struggling (as others do) trying to not buy a special tool for the removal of the rear brake drums...
...in the end I gave up with my various methods and bought a puller =>
[WHINGE] 80 bloody euros for an effing puller [/WHINGE]
Anyway now they are off I´m glad I persisted - the brake shoes, whilst they still have a fair amount of meat on them, are cracked. The drums themselves are grooved and a bit done in. I expect it will be cheaper to replace than pay for machine work (very very expensive to get things machined in Holland)
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With the drums removed it was more apparent that the differential backlash (movement between the crown wheel and the pinion) is pretty dreadful. So I removed the rear cover on the differential =>
With cover removed mk1 eye ball thinks the backlash is about 5mm...
...so that needs to be fixed.
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Trying to find the drive ratio - numbers on the crown wheel don´t seem to help
(Am I really gonna have to resort to counting cogs?)