I like to bevel the leading and trailing shoe ends with a wood rasp. It gives the shoes a little head start on conforming to the drums.
I didn’t even know about bench bleeding until I came to this forum. Still never done a bench bleed of new master cylinder, - although I have only done a few………all under floor ones. I still don’t understand the logic to it, as surely at some point the air bubbles rise to the top, bit like air you breath out under water ?
I always thought that as soon as you break a connection you will introduce air into the system. Take the little lines off after you do a bench bleed and screw in the new ones, and there’s got to be a bit of air that lingers in the ports. Maybe even migrated to the main bore. Always sounded like a waste of time.
I had changed a brake light pressure switch, did not have to do any bleeding after. Pedal was where it was before I took it apart.
yep, I have had the same, but it was directly hooked into the tee on the master cylinder, so possibly the air went back up to master cylinder or I didn’t notice the small amount of air in the system……… After several hydraulic switch failures, I went mechanical switch……..
I am on my 2nd switch in 7 years, the 1st was from Napa, pure garbage. Almost anything from Napa has "soiled" the bed on me. Mine is south of the master, installed into my distribution block. I have a spare pair of wires into the switch bundle in case I want to go with a switch on the pedal arm.
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