re: brake balance oddity

[adh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Sandwich Maker)]

i was poking through my amc-file mailbox tonight...

many moons ago [aug '97!], i posted this:

" From: adh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Sandwich Maker)
" 
" had the brakes on my '68 american done recently.
" 
" the fronts were okay but the rears needed a lot of work -- new drums,
" shoes, spring kits...  since then, the right rear has been very touchy
" and locks up long before the other wheels.
" 
" the drums have been checked for roundness.  all the brakes have been
" adjusted and re-adjusted.  the only thing left [apparently] is the
" wheel cylinders, but they aren't leaking and my mechanic doesn't
" understand how else they could fail.  i don't either.
" 
" anyone have any ideas?

i never did get it settled.

well, after having my rear brakes done again recently, it turned out
that the culprit was the wrong wheel cylinders!  the previous
'mechanic' used 1 1/8" v8 cyls instead of 15/16" i6 cyls.

to be fair, none of the online sites i tried caught this either, and
if i hadn't had a tsm i wouldn't have known.  but i'd think he
would've noticed the cyls he put in didn't match the ones he took out.
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