Seriously dumb question about frozen/rusted brakes

Uncharted area for me too. And extremely irritating and frustrating.

 

Yeah because I'm in Chilliwack BC, Canada. Although it doesn't rain as much here as it does in Seattle 150 miles away lol

Gonna try my lockers on it today, but that could cause scary expensive damage in the diff or even the tranny. But will be very gentle. It's poring down with rain today, so if it doesn't break free today, I will go underneath tomorrow and do some exploratory surgery on the brake system itself. I don't know what brand of slack I have (never been good at identifying those) but will see if the push rod is seized (doubt it), or if it's cammed over (really doubt it) and try and cage the stupid thing. Worse comes to worse, if I have to limp it to the shop with a caged brake, at least I won't be adding an expensive road call to my costs to fix the bloody thing.

Bad thing is a jack and axle stands and a heavy duty impact wrench was on my to buy list, but never got around to it. I have a feeling this exercise is gonna cost roughly the same thing.

Argh!!!

 

I whacked it hard and long. Thing started moaning, so I figured that was enough. But, too much rain today to work out front on it. Gonna use an old trick to jack it without a jack (geez this is getting dirty) and get under it and see what the hades is going on. Still iffy on blowing up a diff by locking everything up.

 

Before I start working on it today. Can someone please let me know if the cam is actually rolled over, is there any way to release the brake?