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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