this weekend

as the title says this weekend i have been mostly under the landrover . having bought a brake kit and two new front drums from paddocks got them all fitted but brakes still feel crap .shoes and pistons all round .took an age to bleed up with a gunsons eezybleed .but got there in the end . now would you run it for a week then adjust them up and bleed them again .when they have bedded in or whats best . with drum brakes . cheers

Once bled to your satisfaction thats it job done, but the brakes will need constant adjustment as the whole lot beds in together.
Bets way to bleed is two people, pump pedal, hold down, release nipple, tighten nipple, pump pedal and repeat etc
Ive never had any luck with the easy bleed devices.



Lynall

If you bought the paddocks kit then they will be s**tpart.

Name says it all really.

I put them on mine and had to instantly adjust them to full adjustment leaving no room for adjusting when the pads wear down.

I've now got a Disco axel sat by my shed with the intension to work out exactly what to do with the caster angle thing everyone talks about and to referb it to go on (giving disc breaks)

i dont think you will ever get brakes that compare with today's vehicles, i am going to fit a defender master cylinder and servo and chage it to dual ststem

bermach shoes ****part pistons some other make drums . got lots of peddle travel and the brakes are now binding gona have another go later see if i can get them right .cant get the wheels to spin indipendantly to adjust them .trail and error as not a mechanic

right then just spent a few hour s over two days trying to get the brakes right . just get it all bled up no air good peddle take it on road to test have to pump peddle two or thee times befor they work . back on drive re bleed no air comes out . strip new hubs of brake shoes only making contact with top and bottem of hub adjust them up so they dont spin then back them of a bit wheels on test drive the same got no leaks all new shoes and pistons two new hubs on front.will the shoes bed in when the top and bottem edges wear of ber mach shoes so hopefully not crap ones dont know what to do next cheers

bearmach sell a range of parts like britpart, pattern bearmach are not likely to be as good as genuine or oe

if you still need to pump pedal, could be the springs are not on correctly, if they are fixed to the shoe and pulling the piston back in , this would account for the 2 pedal pumps without air in system.. took me a while to figure it out!

springs on ok bottem to both shoes. top ,to back plate and shoe having checked them the brake shoes seem to be only touching the new drums at top and bottem got 2 dyas of now so hoping to get them right .but reading some old posts could be a dodgy master cylinder but thanks for the advice i need lots of it cheers