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14bff Help!

sandracer799

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I am trying to change the brakes on my 95 K2500 454, it has the 14bFF and everyone tells me that 86 and up the drum should slide right off i am not having any luck, it looks like the whole hub and everything is one peice and there is no way it can slide right off.Any help would be great
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Josh

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You have to pull off the 8 bolts that holed the axle shaft in. then take out the lock nuts/washer that hold the hub on, then the whole hub/drum will com off.
It isnt fun :crazy:
 
I know on my 14 bolt I had to pull the axle shaft, lock rings and then release the brakes through the access hole in the backing plate. Then the hub came right off when I tapped on it with a hammer. Watch your toes


85 beat me too it
 
As stated, the 8 inner bolts on the hub have to come out. This will allow you to pull the axleshaft out. When you do that, you will see a large nut (socket available for free rental at Autozone if you don't have one). It's been a while, but I believe there is a keyway and a lockring (it's been a while so others might be able to correct me if I'm wrong) as well.

This is what makes the axle a full floater (FF), the hub/drum is held on by the axle housing, not the axleshaft.

1/2 ton axles and 3/4 tons equipped with 14SF (if that was available) in 86 would have the "slip on" style drums, but not 3/4 and 1 tons equipped with a 14FF.
 
i think that the slip on drums for FF started in 1996, not 1986. My 96 1 ton had slip on drums, just like a sf, but the axle and hub were just like the old 14 ff
 
the pictured axle is NOT a skip on drum. either way, that drum is heavy, don't pull it off the spindle until you have a clear spot to set it down, you ain't going far with it
 
Come on girls, It aint that heavy. I unloaded my 14ff and D60 complete hub to hub (The d60 still had the leafs attached too) off of my trailer by myself and moved them into the garage. :doah: Now that, I wouldn't recomend. But bend you knees get a good grip on the drum when you get it loose and you'll have no probs.


JK Guys
 
Yourself? Yourself and a front loader......... :D

I couldn't get the 14 bolt off the truck myself, it was full of oil. Damn thing has to weigh over 400 lbs.
 
I unloaded a 14bff by myself, and had to take a week off work to show for it. :doah:

Luckily I tried the 14 bolt first and not the 60.

Your drums are def. not slip on, I have a '87 axle and it's still the old style. Some came with a lock ring and keyway inside the hub, others came with two lock rings and a washer.
 

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