[Healeys] Bleeding brakes

[Larry Varley]

Mike is quite right here, if your lucky enough to have an old brake 
drum, cutting a section out of it so you can see the shoe contact with 
the drum makes this much easier.
Cheers
Larry Varley

On 5/07/2015 11:04 AM, Michael wrote:
> Another important operation when it comes to drum brakes is the 
> importance of correctly adjusting the shoe "rest" pins. If these rests 
> are not adjusted so that the shoes are contacting the drums straight 
> on it is impossible to get a hard pedal.
>
> Michael S
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> From: Larry Varley <mailto:varley at cosmos.net.au>
> Sent: ‎4/‎07/‎2015 8:28 p.m.
> To: healeys at autox.team.net <mailto:healeys at autox.team.net>
> Subject: Re: [Healeys] Bleeding brakes
>
> On the drum brake front cars the front brakes must be de adjusted first
> or you will probably never get all of the air out. It even says in the
> BN1 manual to do this. This pushes the pistons home and reduces the air
> in the wheel cylinders.
> My method for doing it alone - attach about 6 feet of clear soft tube to
> the bleeder screw. Put the tube up higher than the car ( over a step
> ladder etc ) open the bleed screw slightly and slowly pump the pedal,
> then see the fluid come up the tube and keep going until no air bubbles
> are coming up though the fluid. Close the bleed screw and repeat on all
> wheel. Works every time.
> Cheers
> Larry Varley
>
>
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