[Healeys] brake master cylinder

[Alan Seigrist]

James -

Two things -

Your BN6 is 4 x drum brakes.  You have to take up the slack on the shoes
first before putting the car on the road.  I am sure this is your problem -
you are pumping up the brakes which pushes the shoes to take up the slack to
the drum because you haven't adjusted the shoes yet.

If that doesn't fix it, try bleeding the brakes using a ezibleed kit (best
way to bleed a difficult system), starting L Rear, R Rear, L Front, then
finally R Front.

Alan

'52 A90
'53 BN1
'64 BJ8


On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 10:32 AM, James Shope <healeymanjim at hansencc.net>wrote:

> put a new brake master cylinder on my bn6.  cannot seem to get a hard
> pedal.
> have ran a couple of pints or more of brake fluid through the system and
> cannot see any air being expelled, but pedal goes to floor.   will pump up
> so
> i suspect some air somewhere.  any ideas.  TIA   hjim
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