Do you have to pump the brakes?

[Phil Waterman]

Hi All

Particularly those of you who drive your CMPs, I have always been impressed with brakes on CMPs. As only the rear wheels of my HUP has GM brakes I assume that the brakes on Ford CMPs are as good as the Chevy.

I've always kept the brakes adjusted per the book, recently while driving all three trucks over to our MV Club's Rally I noticed that two of three trucks brakes were not the best I remembered. Meaning that pumping the brakes made them work better. Well when I got them home and started checking the adjustment and found that only the most minor of adjustment on the upper cams brought the brakes back to full performance. Peddle has about 2" of travel to hard on.

Has anybody else noted dramatic improvement with only minor adjustment?

Cheers Phil