Phil Patterson writes: Yeah, if the shoes are out of adjustment the pedal can feel low or mushy, there should be a slight drag when you spin the wheel with your hand. If not, you need to adjust the brakes. Might not be a bad time to take a look at them also. That way you can check the wheel cylinders of leakage. Do the front ones first and I hope you have a puller so you can pull the back drums for inspection. Sperduto, Nick wrote: > Hello all. > Here's a brake question for you's (can you tell I'm from Jersey ?) > . My car is a 56 Plymouth, manual brakes. > I drove it last week and the brakes felt low and mushy. > So Sunday, I pulled the top off the master cylinder and it was pretty much > empty. > So I filled it back up. Checked the lines and fitting, no leaks. Did the > "major brake adjustmet" adjusting the shoes closer to the drum, then I bled > all 6 wheel cylinders and took the car out driving around town for a couple > of days. I still see no leaks at the fittings. I didn't take the wheels of > to check the cylinders. The pedal does not sink. > > Could the shoes being so far out of adjustment on all four wheel make the > wheel cylinders expand enough to suck all the fluid out of that tiny master > cylinder. > When I bled the brakes, I didn't get any air out of the lines. > > On another note, i will start working on my running warm at an idle problem > next week. > One person suggested first I check to see that the car is actually running > warm. > With the guage at 3/4 towards max, the collant temp (by sticking a > thermometer in the radiator" was 200 degrees. So I think it's safe to assume > that when the guage it at max, the car is overheating. The first thing I'm > going to do is attempt to remove the thermostat. > > Thanks, > Nick
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