My care package from FCP/Groton arrived yesterday so I jacked up the 240 and started working on the brakes again this afternoon. The first thing I did was remove the brake lines from the MC and install blank plugs. The pedal is high and hard so I have a good starting point. Next I loosened all the brake lines going into the distribution block and it is ready to come out. It was leaking around the brake light switch. I have a new distribution block and new rubber brake lines to install tomorrow but I wanted to let the line connections soak in PB Blaster over night. I also got new calipers for the front to install but I decided to install the new brake lines first. I also found a few bad wheel studs so I might as well replace those too while the calipers are off.

Everything seems to be progressing along well so far. I hope to have a strong brake pedal after all the new parts are installed and the system is bled. I'll let you know how it turns out but I may not be able to get new wheel studs until Monday so that might hold me up a bit on finishing the job. I really wasn't looking foward to working on the brakes again but I feel confident that the brakes will work much better when I'm done.

DeWayne

I'm still tuned in.

Try to keep the PB (or any oil) from sneaking into the brake lines. PB's an oil-based product and won't be kind to your brake seals. The seals are rubber, and oil-based products will soften and harm rubber.

(Conventional brake fluid is a complex, long-chain alcohol or polyether compound.)
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Don Foster (near Cape Cod, MA)

Good to hear from you. I'm really hoping that you end up pin-pointing the original problem, so we can learn something. It would be great if you had male and f-male caps/plugs so you could block off things and connect one component at a time.
Good Luck
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88 765 w/2stage boost (TO.)

good luck dewayne!