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No pressure to rear brakes 11" drums

Got the rear wheel cylinders out, apart and cleaned up. They're salvageable.

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I know you know your stuff but those cylinders are only salvageable if they don't leak after you rebuild them.... After your done and the system is bleed and your satisfied the pedal is hard, make sure you keep checking it days and weeks later. If any doubt pull the drums and peel back the boots and look for leakage. The fluid doesn't have to be pouring down the backing plate for the cylinders to be bad
Also once the drums are adjusted if the car pulls, recheck as you could have a piston hanging up in the bore
 
The front wheel cylinders had barnacles growing inside & I've decided that I'm just going to send all 4 wheel cylinders and Master cylinder out to be re-sleeved & rebuilt.
 
good thing your gonna need that stuff soon......in like 3 months
 
I just found something out about that unless every rubber part is changed dont go silicone fluid. One drop of dot 3 (ie in the rubber parts already) is enough too contaminate the whole system and it will drastically swell the rubber, seriously.
I know oil can do that, but Ebooger had always written that you can just flush out the DOT3 and replace it with DOT5?
 
I have a buddy into the 40-50 cars and he showed me some of the parts it is not pretty. I have done it also.....
 
NICE !!!!!


I ups'd the parts to them last week & they got them in on Friday morning. By Monday afternoon, they were shipping them back. That's what I call super service!

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Pretty good example of a bit of dot 3 then dot 5 added after a flush. I have to see if he has pics of his parts, seriously unbelievable not beating anything up here was just a eye opener. Hey you should ask your brake guy about it.
 
I know oil can do that, but Ebooger had always written that you can just flush out the DOT3 and replace it with DOT5?
I've done this in about 4 vehicles including my Charger which was done 20 years ago.
I just pump the master down to almost empty then flush about a pint of synthetic out of every line.
Never had a problem with the brakes on it. The gasket on the master if perfect.
At least that's been my experience.

I did have a mini-van that had excessive swelling in the master and other parts of the brake system. Just before I bought it the owner put something in the master. I don't know what. But the calipers started locking up and I eventually replaced just about every part in the brake system which really sucked since I just paid for the van.
 
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Got the brakes back together & operational. On to the next projects; the radiator is out to be flushed and pressure checked, replace te hoses, coolant & exhaust system.

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