New Brake Bleeding
You can easily eliminate some things. Go down to the store and buy 4 inverted flare unions the correct size to fit your brake tubes AT the cylinders. For the disks, you'll have to get them to fit where the hoses disconnect. Then buy 4 inverted flare plugs to fit the unions
Unhook all your cylinders/ calipers and install the unions/ plugs. Rebleed system. IF you have ANY pedal at all, "final bleed" using the manual pump pedal method. BE SURE you tighten the plug EACH TIME and BEFORE your partner releases the pedal. Best way, after you seem to be getting "all fluid" is to ANTICIPATE the pedal coming down, and tighten the plug then. Yup. It'll be messy. Last time I did this was 20 some years ago. I took two of the plugs to make bleeding easier, and filed a notch down the length of the threads to allow fluid to escape. Don't damage the flare seat on the bottom.
(Another way if you can find them is to buy a "bleeder assembly" One place to get them is somewhere that sells parts for high pressure oil burners, as in oil furnace. The Oil burners uses a bleeder with 1/8 pipe thread. You could get on/ two of those and with a "1/2 union" ---1/2 inverted flare and 1/2 pipe thread, this would adapt the oil burner bleeders to your brake tubes.
When you get this all bleed you should have a VERY high and hard pedal. Because disk calipers don't "return" much fluid, IE they don't move back very far, hook up just one caliper, bleed it, and check for pedal, do the other caliper. If OK so far, tighten the rear shoe adjusters until you can NOT turn the wheels, and bleed just one rear, if OK, do the other. IF you still have good pedal (IE the rears are bled) back off your adjustment until there is still some drag on the brakes. Jab the pedal periodically as you adjust them to "reseat" the shoes, and "tune in" the adjustment.
I agree, huge diameter rear cylinders =more rear shoe pressure = less pedal pressure = less shoe movement = more use of fluid and =less pedal height.
I had a HECK of a time finding a decent photo of these, here
http://www.behrents.com/mm5/merchan...ode=OLBrakes-CaliperAcc-BleedScrews/TubeAssem
You can easily eliminate some things. Go down to the store and buy 4 inverted flare unions the correct size to fit your brake tubes AT the cylinders. For the disks, you'll have to get them to fit where the hoses disconnect. Then buy 4 inverted flare plugs to fit the unions
Unhook all your cylinders/ calipers and install the unions/ plugs. Rebleed system. IF you have ANY pedal at all, "final bleed" using the manual pump pedal method. BE SURE you tighten the plug EACH TIME and BEFORE your partner releases the pedal. Best way, after you seem to be getting "all fluid" is to ANTICIPATE the pedal coming down, and tighten the plug then. Yup. It'll be messy. Last time I did this was 20 some years ago. I took two of the plugs to make bleeding easier, and filed a notch down the length of the threads to allow fluid to escape. Don't damage the flare seat on the bottom.
(Another way if you can find them is to buy a "bleeder assembly" One place to get them is somewhere that sells parts for high pressure oil burners, as in oil furnace. The Oil burners uses a bleeder with 1/8 pipe thread. You could get on/ two of those and with a "1/2 union" ---1/2 inverted flare and 1/2 pipe thread, this would adapt the oil burner bleeders to your brake tubes.
When you get this all bleed you should have a VERY high and hard pedal. Because disk calipers don't "return" much fluid, IE they don't move back very far, hook up just one caliper, bleed it, and check for pedal, do the other caliper. If OK so far, tighten the rear shoe adjusters until you can NOT turn the wheels, and bleed just one rear, if OK, do the other. IF you still have good pedal (IE the rears are bled) back off your adjustment until there is still some drag on the brakes. Jab the pedal periodically as you adjust them to "reseat" the shoes, and "tune in" the adjustment.
I agree, huge diameter rear cylinders =more rear shoe pressure = less pedal pressure = less shoe movement = more use of fluid and =less pedal height.
I had a HECK of a time finding a decent photo of these, here
http://www.behrents.com/mm5/merchan...ode=OLBrakes-CaliperAcc-BleedScrews/TubeAssem