Job done. I comfirm that the job is easely doable without removing the hub. I mean easily if you know what you are doing
I must confess, I had many hard moment until I learned... Almost cried in agony sometimes
As Bret mentioned, pipe is easely damaged when removing the wheel cylinder. My job started with a broken pipe. Luckily I have a flaring tool and had the correct nut so I could repair that. The pipes were so corroded that maybe they should be changed in near future. On the other side the pipe would have broked aswell, but I tried different approach. I kept the nut by knipex and turned the wheel cylinder. After that I gave the nut some serious heat and it freed itself from the pipe.
I put the old shoes to wise and removed the top big spring with a screwdriver. Other springs are not hard to remove. I used that old spring as a hook (gripped with knipex) when assembling the new spring. I found that it was easiest not to assemble the whole shoe set in wise, but take the shoe with a handbrake lever separately and attach that to handbrake cable first (loosen the handbrake adjuster nut in the cabin first). Then slide both shoes in place on top of cylinder pistons and attach the top small spring (note, the big spring was attached in vice!), then the handbrake adjusting wedge spring and the lower horizontal spring.
The new shoes located to pistons nicely, even though the old ones were assembled right. Maybe the old springs were "died" or something?
I painted the new drums for aestetic reasons. The brakes are very sweet now, can go to katsastus (MOT) to show them without worry.
Bret, do you live in Finland? If you need help with changing the wheel cylinder, I'm glad to help. Or just go for coffee and talk some A2 stuff
Pekka