Dan Thomas wrote:
>
> Sounds like there's a high spot that's trapping air in the system. Are
> those wheel cylinders installed with the bleeder at the top so the
> cylinder fills up properly?

The way the backing plates and cylinders are designed, there's only one way they
can be mounted.

> Is, perhaps, the auto sitting facing
> downhill, with the master cylinder outlet lower than most of the
> cylinder, trapping air in it?

No, it's on the flat. It's possible that the master is mounted that way in the
car, but not enough to be obvious to the eye.

>
> The master cylinder cups should face cup-side forward.

Thanks. Joe Way sent me a schematic.

> There's another phenomenon that likely isn't present here, but
> gives people fits: the shoes can hang up on the backing plates if
> there's no spot of lube on the rub pads, and they won't return to the
> anchor pin unless the car rolls along for awhile or goes over a bump
> or two. Adjusting the brakes forces the bottoms of the shoes out and
> they seem to drag a bit OK and there's good pedal, but after a few
> minutes on the road the pedal will go to the floor. No amount of
> bleeding will fix it. You have to bang the backing plates with a
> hammer to settle the shoes before adjusting the brakes.

Doesn't sound possible on my car.

George Patterson
If a man gets into a fight 3,000 miles away from home, he *had* to have
been looking for it.