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No, the major brake adjustment involves feeler gauges. The minor brake adjustment is just cranking the adjustment nuts on the backplate until it starts dragging and back it off a hair. The adjustment nuts are 4 big nuts, 2 on top, 2 on bottom, that control the resting position of the shoes.

When I first bought my truck I did have a firm pedal feel, but the pedal would freely go almost to the floor before I felt any braking action. A minor brake adjustment as outlined in the TM fixed that. Now my pedal feel is less than an inch before braking action starts.

When I bled my brakes with the pressure bleeder, I hooked up a hose to the bleeder screws into a fluid collection jar and opened the bleeder. Since you have plenty of positive pressure coming from the pressure bleeder, you can open the valve pretty wide by sliding the wrench off and back on...

Well, I'm a believer now. I assembled the bleeder, dumped DOT5 into it, pumped it up, and had all the brakes bled in less than an hour. Now I have a rock hard pedal, though I still need to road test it. I ran out of time tonight.

Today I bought a sprayer and the fittings I thought I needed to build the bleeder. Apparently, the cap is not a 1/4 NPT. I'm taking the vent to the store tommorow to try to find the right barb to NPT fitting tommorow. Hopefully I can get this right so I can get to bleeding the brakes.

Well, I guess tommorow I'm stopping at lowes or home depot and picking up the parts required to build a pressure bleeder.

Last week I replaced all the brake hoses on the deuce, and today I tried to bleed the brakes. I first bled the airpack by hand (hanging off the brake pedal) and all seemed fine. I then went to the rear right tire and started vacuum bleeding the brakes. After pulling 12-16 oz out of the rear...