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Originally Posted by HiLife
Do you have abs? Could be a huge air bubble made it to the unit too.
You may have to cycle the pump, bleed, cycle, bleed, a couple of times to get all the air out of it.
Braking on a slick road will cycle the pump. Ex: dirt road, water soaked road.
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you beat me to it.....my last tbu that is what i had to do. but you dont have to be going fast....just stomp on the brakes a few times so they lock up like said above...on a gravel or wet road...then bleed again.
then of course adjust back brakes....if cams or cable not frozen it might take a lot of pulls on the ebrake to get it to the recomended 7 or so clicks.
if the cams are frozen....you can go through the reqr brake drum with a screwdriver. ive been lucky and no frozen/rusted cams.
unfurtunatey for me...i will be doing this all soon....as I have a bad rear wheel cylinder....so replacing both and the shoes. and while at it im replaceing all hoses with ss lines....hey they are 20+ years old...they do go bad and can look perfect from outside....but I had one car where the line was bad,,,,swelled to the inside,,,so you could not see it, just could not figurre out why that caliper was so hard to bleed....pulled the line at the caliper...pushed the pedal...was like a blocked artery.....not much flow.
for me....anyone doing a tbu with these old rigs should at least replace the front lines if not all. new lines,,,does not have to be the ss braided....but with the money your already blowing on a tbu...why not do the best lines.