Posted by IA Roy on January 11, 2016 at 20:38:13 from (72.168.160.121):
I went out to work on it about 6:30 Friday night. A continuation of the project from hell. As you might recall it took me 4 hours to get the rear wheels off last weekend. That night it took another 4 hours to get the rear brake drums off. I only had to heat and cool the passenger side 3 times. The drivers side I heated and cooled with oil, water, oil again, water again for a total of 6 times. The last time I melted beeswax around the pilot hole. I alternated with dead blow hammer, pry bars and a bfh. I finally resorted to a scissors jack as the weekend before with the wheel on that side. I did get it to pop off and bent this jack also. By then it was way past time to quit. I got back to it on Saturday after birthday lunch with my family. I replaced wheel cylinders, brake shoes and the springs that came in the replacement spring kit. I then replaced the brake lines from the wheel cylinders to the tee on the axle. By then I went in to the house for supper. While I was eating, an old friend from childhood called, and we talked about 45 minutes, and when I got my then cold supper finished, my parents called. After that I was not in the mood for more work, so it kept until after church and lunch yesterday. When I got the brakes bled twice from farthest wheel to nearest wheel. I took it for a test drive. The only difference it had from last week was that it was back to the original symptoms and also swerving a little. I did reverse driving and braking to make the self adjusting mechanism adjust the rear shoes. It might be my imagination, but it seemed to brake better in reverse. Probably because I was going much slower. Evidently the proportioning valve centered itself with the bleeding. It started with very little braking as it was very low on brake fluid. The antilock brake module is pulsating (chattering) and again/still I have very poor brakes. I had only found a little seepage past the wheel cylinder pistons, but it was still contained inside the rubber pushrod seals. Today I got to wondering what the symptoms of a bad master cylinder are with an ABS system. I think that was distracting me. Next chance I get to look at it, I am going to check the vacuum brake booster line to see if it is sucking fluid. There was no evidence of leaks anywhere else. Any suggestions on the next thing to check. By the way the brake shoes were ready to be replaced, and as noted above the wheel cylinders were on their last leg. So far I have nor replaced anything that did not need to be.
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