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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