[Spridgets] Brake Enigma

Peter Caldwell peter at nosimport.com
Fri Jan 1 08:34:57 MST 2010


Handbrake? How many clicks to lock the rear brakes?
  Should be 3 or 4.
  If more adjust the rear shoes.
         Peter C
==
At 07:33 PM 12/31/2009, you wrote:
>59 Bugeye with front disks.
>
>3/4 inch original master cyl that came with the parts for converting to disk
>brakes.
>
>System *completely bled*. . including slave cyl.
>
>Now, no leaks. .
>
>New cap on master cyl. with cork gasket.
>
>I still have to pump up the brakes to get pressure to stop -  brake pedal
>will not hold on a hill.  Clutch works fine.
>
>I have exhausted everything I can think of.
>
>When I push the rod into the master cyl I notice the fluid pushing hard to
>the bottom of the cap. (Translucent white cap).  This might point to a block
>in the system?  However, my Gunson bleeder seems to push good pressure
>through the system when I bleed the brakes.
>
>
>Master Cyl had a rebuild kit installed about two years ago.  And again, the
>clutch is holding pressure.
>
>If there was a leak in my master cyl brake bore - I would also see fluid
>coming out of the front of the cylinder (like with my slave cyl when it was
>leaking)?
>
>*Any help at all is very much appreciated. .  *
>
>
>Thanks!
>
>
>
>Kirk Hargreaves
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