Farmall H Brake Cover Removal

Does anyone know of the best way of getting the cover off ? The shaft appears to be rusted in place coming thru the cover. This is keeping the wheel from turning, the tractor has been sitting outside & not used. I'm looking to purchase this tractor but can't move it because of this. Any ideas ? Thanks

Remove the spring and linkage components from the lever. Use a Oxy-acetylene torch to heat the housing where the shaft comes out. (Heat only n the housing/bushing, not the shaft.) let it cool. Put penetrating oil on it PB Blaster, or Other juice. Take a large adjustable wrench and move the lever Cw, then CCW repeatedly and see if you can get it to budge. Repeat the heat step and cooling until it does. The worst is to loose the tin cover, which is not uncommon, and not terribly expensive. Jim

My experience has been as follows. Remove all the little studs on the brake pan(cover). Pull the cotter pins on the brake spring and disconnect. Now soaking with penetrating oil and heating will help,but I had one on an H that was so rusted and siezed that we had to use brute force. I got a big pry bar that had a tappered point and we sprung the brake pan enough to get the bar in to the point where the shaft goes into the trans housing. I held the bar tight against that point and my friend hit the end of the bar with a large sledge hammer. We had to hit it several times and it finally moved and we were able to continue wiggling and prying..and we were nearly six hours from the time we started until we got it out..one of the toughest ones I ever did. I keep a set of brake pans ,shafts,shoes etc and the brass bushings that should be present where the shaft sets into the trans housing. The worst case senerio is to cut the pan off and then have access to the shaft,heat it all with the blue wrench and douse with cold water,it will come out that way too. I cleaned the hole in the trans housing with a dremel tool ,then grease if liberaly,inserted the new brass bushing and then replaced the brake pan/shaft. Those things get siezed and rusted and they are in there like they were welded. Finding a brake pan assembly for an H should not be hard to do and it shouldn't be expensive if you have to sacrifice the old one.If we were closer,I'd give you a hand and bring an extra brake pan/shaft assembly along.

I've got a lot of spare pans and parts if you should need something, everything but bands.
Zach