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ron wilson

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Have a 78 Austin Mini and I have tried bleeding the brakes several times. I can get a hard pedal at first then if I wait only a few minutes it will go clear to the floor agan.
 
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Sounds like you need to adjust your (probably rear) brakes before you try much else.
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If your front brakes are drums (not likely) then those are also a possibility.
 
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Adjusted the rear brakes as yiou suggested. Also did th front *they are drum)
and it seemed to cure the problem. Do not understand the relationship between adjusting and getting air out of the system but it worked Thanks al lot
 
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Adjusting and bleeding have very little to do with each other- what happened originally is that when you pumped the peddle a couple of times you kept expanding the brake shoes until they matched the drums, you didn't give them time to retract between pumps (they actually retract pretty slowly). Then when you tried them again they HAD retracted and you had to start over. Now they only retract enough to release the pressure but don't retract so far from the drums that you need to multi-pump them to get contact. (Is that understandable?)
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