Man I can't get decent pedal! 3/4 the way down and then if if your lucky you won't have to pump em up. I've got to be doing something wrong!
Start: bought the car 73 super, had mushy brakes and pulled to right when hard braking, installed new hoses, front wheel cyls(one leaked), and shoes all around. had decent brakes it seemed but more bleeding was needed but it was cold out. Then we had a big snow, i had chains on the rears and only the fronts would brake, car would only stop on the ice with handbrake applied, which meant the rears werent getting eny braking. So installed a new master cyl and rear cyls. bled more cans of fluid through them, still 90% of the time !!WOW!! pedal all the way to the floor and no brakes!! pump em up and give yourself plenty of stopping distance. More bleeding: gravity bleeding, pressure bleeding, pump pump pump hold bleeding, every method described in every webpage and service manual ever written,(except vacuum) still no changes.
OK maybe I got a bad brazil master cyl. so another 40 bucks for a new one, installed and no changes, bled a big can through them, still no air out of the whel cyls but still surprise all the way to the floor pedal.
next step, drive it over a cliff!!
Any one got any ideas? or similar experiences that could help caue I'm stumped.
ps, my ol 68 never had this kind of issue ever, i always gravity bled for a few mins and all was well. it still has one inch pedal before solid braking after last overhauling the brakes on it a few years ago.