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Re: [Spridgets] brake problems

To: Steven Kemple <skemple@tidewater.net>
Subject: Re: [Spridgets] brake problems
From: Linda Grunthaner <grunthaner@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2011 12:45:53 -0400
I think you just answered your own question " and the rear one looks new".
The list always taught me to replace all rubber lines with "new" regardless
how good they look.
Just my 2 cents.
Lin

On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 12:20 PM, Steven Kemple <skemple@tidewater.net>wrote:

> Hi all
>
> I'm a new lister, but not new to LBC's.  I acquired a 61 Bugeye recently
> and
> have been working on brake problems ever since.  Seemed O.K. when I did the
> test drive but the brakes seemed weak and the pedal very hard.  I chalked
> it
> up to not being used to 4 wheel drum brakes.
>
> On the first drive after delivery the rear brakes locked up.  Changed the
> rear
> cylinders.  Then the front brakes locked up.  After extensive review of the
> archives and discussions with the PO it appears that the car had a newly
> rebuilt Master Cylinder and ended up with the wrong push rod resulting in
> no
> free movement.  That has been corrected.  Even after a fairly short drive
> with
> the locked up front brakes, the shoes and cylinders looked pretty much
> trashed
> so I changed them ( shoes and Lockeed type cylinders from Moss).  I have
> two
> problems that I have been struggling with for days.  First, the right front
> wheel drum is very tight with the adjusters completely unadjusted.  I can
> see
> no difference in parts.  I even tried changing the shoes and drums from the
> left side with no difference.  The other problem is that I can not get a
> hard
> pedal.  I can not detect any leaks and no bubbles when bleeding.  I am
> using
> the wife assist bleed method.  I can pump up the pedal a bit but it is not
> close to right.  I let it sit for a couple of days and still no change.
>  The
> front flexible lines are new and the rear one looks new.  Isolation of the
> flexible lines has not pointed to a specific problem.  The only other thing
> to
> add is that at one front wheel I found a small amount of fluid inside the
> drum
> back plate but could not detect from where.  I thought it may have been a
> run
> away drip from the bleeding process.  Could it be a hair line crack in a
> new
> wheel cylinder?  I have read just about every brake posting on the archives
> looking for an answer.  Any thoughts?
>
> Steve Kemple
>
> AN5
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