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brake problem in germany

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Hello from germany.
1970 D200 ,383,camper special,power brakes.

New parts: master cylinder,4 wheel cylinders,all hoses,brake shoes,some lines.
master cylinder bench bleeded
system bleeded in the right order
brake shoes are correct adjusted also the push rod from the booster.

I have read here many helpfull threads and tryed all possibilities.

good hard pedal BUT when the engine is running there is no pedal.The car brakes a little bit befor the pedal is on the bottom.

The master cylinder i bought is the same like the old one,with 4 bolts to the booster.1" bore.I found the MC by rockauto by the trucks wich are older or with small blocks.
Someone changed the booster and the MC???
Not thinking about it i bought 4 wheel cylinders for the 383. Bore 1 1/8".

Could the different bore size be my problem?

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Sounds like a vacuum problem.
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I was thinking the same thing - booster/vacuum leak maybe? Air in the system or need to bench bleed the master cylinder?

I forget if this is 4 drums and you added the booster. I don't know enough about the length of booster-master pushrod to know

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The system runs last year with this booster.
Brake shoes was done after the summer,three wheel cylinders was wet,...
So i have changed all the parts.

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Did u try pumping the pedal several times quickly?

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I like Terry's suggestion. I had an old rambler that I did a brake job on once and thought I had bled everything after replacing brake cylinders, and still could not get decent pedal pressure unless I pumped it. I took it to Midas and they laughed me out of there saying I shouldn't have done the job if i didn't know how to bleed the brakes. I limped it home and went around and around the car on each cylinder until I eventually got the air out.

I eventually bought a mightyVac because I have a van that has a hydraulic clutch requires me to pump fluid up from the lowest point through the cylinder up to the reservoir to get all the air out. I'm still looking for a better solution for flushing fluid however.

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Hello.
We have tryed also to pump quickly.
Yesterday i have opened each wheel cylinder after another and let fluid drop about an hour each.
Hard pedal if engine is not running.
Running engine spongy pedal to the floor.
With engine running i disconnected the hose from the booster.Engine rpm gets higher and pedal is also spongy.
???

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flammulator wrote:With engine running i disconnected the hose from the booster.Engine rpm gets higher and pedal is also spongy.
???
So RPM's increase with the hose plugged or unplugged when disconnect?
If RPM's increase with open hose then that could mean your carb is running a tad rich & the extra air is helping even out the mixture.(this has nothing to do with brakes, just a general observation)

Brake pedal should be same engine Off vs booster disconnected.

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Hello again.
Spending again some time on my truck:
-master cylinder again bleeded.ok
-lines again bleeded.ok
-push rod ajusted.ok
-brake shoes adjusted.ok
-booster is ok
-no leaks

long ,spongy pedal.
Today i drove an hour. brakes hot.to much push rod.so i screwed it a little bit back.brakes free.
Now the way is more longer than before.If the pedal is near the bottom the rear wheels brakes.
AND i hear a hiss inside when i push the pedal.I dont know if it was last year too.

Any ideas what i could try?

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regarding the hiss, my 68 300 did that also, brake booster was bad.

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Hi.
But if the booster is bad,the pedal must be hard when enginebis running.Am i right ?

Is it possible that the MC is inside bad betwen the front and the rear?

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No. Booster has a vac leak. Still "works" but not correctly.

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Did the truck have this problem before you replaced the master cylinder, or did it start after you replaced it?

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Hello.
Its not the booster.I have tryed one from a guys running/brakeing truck.

Last year the brake was perfect.At the end of the summer there was metal to metal,the hoses was bad,.....
So i have changed the whole system including the master cylinder.
After replacing all the parts i never had a good brake.

If the master will be bad i must also loose pressure when the engine isnt running and the pedal is hard.
But i will not loose the hard pedal?!?

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A neat trick is to spray WD40 or Armorall into the booster and if the tear or hole isn't to big everything will work right for a little bit, long enough to know the diaphragm is bad anyway.
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Do you still have the m/c you removed from the truck? Can you measure it and verify it was 1" bore, same as your new m/c?

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Yes,it is the same bore. 1".

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Did you find the cause for the problem?

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Iam not sure because i have ordered new drums and i will receive it next week.

I dont know the right translation.
We have drilled out the drums to the maximum size.
I think the shoes diameter will not perfect fit to the drums diameter .....

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flammulator wrote:Iam not sure because i have ordered new drums and i will receive it next week.

I dont know the right translation.
We have drilled out the drums to the maximum size.
I think the shoes diameter will not perfect fit to the drums diameter .....
What you mean to says is that you have had the drums "turned" (turned on a lathe). This can be only done so far before the drums get replaced.

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