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SHORTBED HARDHEAD 09-05-2009 12:02 PM

Brake problems...
 
MY NEIGHBOR HAS A 68-GMC THAT HE HIS WORKING ON FOR A CUSTOMER, AND IT HAS NEW WHEEL CYLINDERS ALL THE WAY AROUND, NO LEAKS, BUT HE HAS WENT THROUGH 6 MASTER CYLINDERS, NEW FROM THE PARTS HOUSE, BENCH BLED THEM ALL PRIOR TO INSTALLATION, AND I HELPED HIM BLEED THEM AFTER THEY WERE PUT ON. STILL GOES ALMOST TO THE FLOOR ONCE BLED. WE FIGURE THE MASTER CYLINDER IS ALL IT CAN BE, BUT GETTING 6 BAD ONES? WE WOULD REALLY APPRECIATE ANY FEEDBACK ON THIS FROM YOU GUYS.

THANKS,

SHORTBED HARDHEAD..HOUSTON:metal:

lolife99 09-06-2009 03:27 PM

Re: Brake problems...
 
Are you getting good fluid at each corner with no air in the lines?
Are the shoes adjusted out enough?

roofingbloke 09-06-2009 04:45 PM

Re: Brake problems...
 
I have just had the very same problem, it would lock up the brakes but the pedal was allmost on the floor, It turned out that i had been sent the wrong bore inside the master cylnder,


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