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Excessive brake pedal travel after new flex lines and a new master cylinder 120-130 1968

posted by  walrus3 on  Tue Jul 15 05:09 CST 2008
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If it is better with the parking brake on it means the rear drum brakes are not
adjusted tight enough. Adjust them until they are snug and then hammer around
the drum with a 3# hammer at maybe a dozen places from a radial direction. Then see
if you have any more adjustment. The adjusters only move horizontally but the brake
shoes need to be centered vertically also. The hammering does this.

Another thing might be that your front disks are not running true. They should
run within a couple thou. If they are out they push the pads and pistons back
so you have to pump them back out to meet the disk.
--
George Downs, Bartlesville, Heart of the USA!






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