<div dir="auto">Rick,<div dir="auto"> I don't think the new master is leaking internally. I drove the car for over 5 hours yesterday on my way to and from the shop to swap out clutch slave cylinders. The brake pedal goes down almost half way then becomes solid and the brakes work as normal. It can be pumped up once or twice and become solid again. The system was pressure bled multiple times.. The mechanic and I have come to the likely conclusion the new brake shoes in the rear are not contacting the brake drum along it's full surface. No one does brake shoe arcing anymore. When I step on the brakes only a partial part of the brake shoe contacts the brake drum. At the rate of wear on the rear brake shoes, I don't know if they will ever get full contact. At this time the car stops quite well, but I credit the light weight of the car for this. If I was getting 100% out of the rear drums the braking would be much improved. That's my story and I'm sticking to it.</div><div dir="auto">Mike MacLean</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Jan 20, 2022, 11:04 AM HealeyRick <<a href="mailto:healeyrik@gmail.com">healeyrik@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr">Hi Mike,<div><br></div><div>What I'm going to tell you will probably get the other Spridge folks upset because it flies in the fact of common knowledge. I can only tell you what happened when we finished a disc brake swap on a friend's bugeye that had already been started. Initially, we purchased a new TRW 3'4" bore MC. The car had standard rear drum brakes. Try as we might, we couldn't get a hard pedal, even after installing stainless lines all around. We screwed around with pushrod adjustment, still no dice. What we finally ended up doing was purchasing one of these 7/8" inch MCs with an increased reservoir:<a href="https://www.ebay.com/itm/200920716753?fits=Model%3ASprite&hash=item2ec7ced5d1:g:fdsAAOxy02dRf~cB" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">https://www.ebay.com/itm/200920716753?fits=Model%3ASprite&hash=item2ec7ced5d1:g:fdsAAOxy02dRf~cB</a> I'm not sure whether we trimmed the pushrods down a bit as well as it was one of the many things we tried. Might be worth a shot if you get desperate. My motto, "If it doesn't;t work, keep throwing new parts at it until it does."</div><div><br></div><div>Happy Healeying,</div><div>Rick Neville </div></div><div id="m_-8399171991643241255DAB4FAD8-2DD7-40BB-A1B8-4E2AA1F9FDF2"><br>
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> Hi Mike,<br>
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> Do you have the proper clearance on the master pushrod at rest?<br>
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> Rick<br>
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>>> On Jan 18, 2022, at 2:41 PM, Michael MacLean via Spridgets <<a href="mailto:spridgets@autox.team.net" rel="noreferrer noreferrer" target="_blank">spridgets@autox.team.net</a>> wrote:<br>
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>> It's a new AP Lockheed master.<br>
>> Mike<br>
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