Hugh,
Did you try wedging the pedal down overnight with a length of wood trapped
under the steering wheel, i suggested it last year but you were getting 10
conflicting offers of advice a day at the time.
It really does work in the right situation, i have used this method myself
when i was an apprentice mechanic for the GPO.
One other "trade" trick is to bleed the rear brakes with the back of the
car jacked up as high as you can get it (use axle stands), this can help
if there is air trapped in the rear brake line.
Neil 82 IMP
London, England.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Hugh & Therese" <hugtrees@xxxxxxxx>
To: "Imperial Mailing List" <mailing-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, March 18, 2003 6:17 AM
Subject: IML: bleeding brakes *
> * Read with a cockney accent for full effect
>
> Intending to dive the Imperial on Sunday I backed it out of the garage and
> washed it. I cannot remember the last time I washed it, so it was kind of
> nice to reacquaint my knuckles with all its nooks, crannies and crevices.
> Things got a little hectic and I ended up not using it and it stayed on my
> short but steep driveway until around 10:00 PM. Oh, you can only imagine
my
> joy when I restarted it to move it back into the garage to find I had no
> brakes. I did when I left the garage, which is level, of course.
>
> The friend who helped with the brakes last year, of whom some of you do
not
> have the highest opinion, and I had discussed the still less than
acceptable
> braking I was getting from the car. I have only tried to bleed and adjust
> the brakes once since last year. No air was found, but a one or two shoes
> needed to be adjusted, now the new shoes had seated. We concluded there
was
> indeed still air in the line and that what we would have to do is jack up
> the rear end for a few days and let the bubbles rise through the fluid of
> their own accord so we could try to expel them once and for all.
Yesterdays
> impromptu experiment hopefully indicates that the idea just might work.
So,
> when rain has moved out of the forecast, and both Mark and I can find some
> time in our crowded schedules, I will park it outside, nose down, and see
if
> the trapped air cannot be coaxed out of the system.
>
> If we should fail I do not know what to do next. Since two professional
> shops and countless hours of amateur labor have not managed to resolve the
> cars poor brakes, I am left with a rather obvious but unpalatable
> alternative.
>
> Hugh
>
>
>
>
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