Replacing my Brakes Options

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This weekend was step one of two of replacing the brakes on my '76. The previous owner upon selling to me told me that he had rebuilt the front calipers and the brake fluid looked very nice and fresh in the master cylinder. Looks like a nice fresh tank of ATE super blue..... I will find out later that what's in that tank doesnt look like what's in the brake lines....

I started this project because when turning the wheels in the rear to set timing, I can hear the left rear brake dragging, and loudly. I feared it was a bearing, but it wasnt. The brake was dragging. I lift the car and put it on 4 jackstands, the evil kind (IMG:style_emoticons/default/sad.gif) I need some proper pin-thru stands. I have all 4 tires under the car in case the car decides it wants to smoosh me.

I'm using 4 new rebuilt calipers from Eric Shea. With these calipers are 4 new rotors, new front bearings, new seals, 4 new softlines, all new pads. A total of $1038 in parts from Eric.

From the pic...the parts are gorgeous!

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Been a while since I updated the thread...

Eric Shea has been a huge help in getting parts to me that either I didnt have or the PO took off the car ; like the rear caliper gears (IMG:style_emoticons/default/confused24.gif)

When I took all the old calipers off, I had put saran wrap over the MC and tightened the cap.

Apparently when you leave the calipers off the car for that long....things leak out.

Yeah, I came back to the car after finally getting everything I need and find the master cylinder bone dry. Now I know i'm screwed (IMG:style_emoticons/default/sheeplove.gif)

After that, i find the bleeder/vacuum pump I bought at sears had a cracked reservoir and wouldnt hold vacuum. I replaced that and then got to bleeding.

A buddy recommended I wrap the bleeders threads in teflon so that they dont leak when I loosen them for bleeding. This actually didnt work, I got all kinds of air bubbles from around the bleeder nipple. I used grease to stop the air flowing by and it worked great!

I 'bled' the system and then push the brakes and the pedal feels like the gas pedal (IMG:style_emoticons/default/headbang.gif) this is bad...

How do I bleed the system if the whole thing drained out? I have a 76, so do I use the top or the bottom bleeder on the calipers? I've never done this before, so any tips you guys have would be greatly appreciated!

How do you get all the air out of the system? Oh yeah, what size wrench do you need for the bleeders? it's a real bitch to try to tighten and loosen those with needle nose pliers!