1966 Dodge Dart - Turbo slant six

A good day for testing the Sure-Grip?

No, not really.

Swapped the master cylinder and bench bled it. Started bleeding the system with the Motive Products bleeder.

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I didn't finish bleeding the brakes though as the weather is seriously miserable today.

More brake bleeding, and at this point the brakes are soft, but consistently soft. I can force the brake pedal to the floor if I really put my weight on it, although it really takes some force to do that, more than a normal real world brake application would take. Sometimes the pedal seems to be too spongy and I think I shouldn't need the pedal down so much. There is no sign it's leaking fluids, at least not that could be observed. I'm not sure if I need to adjust the rear brakes (I tried riding the brakes down a steep hill backwards to see if that had an effect... maybe), if I need to replace something, or if I just need to recalibrate my foot.

To adjust the rear brakes back off the parking brake so that the cables have slack then tighten star wheel until the brakes have just a slight amount of drag.  Then adjust the parking brake cable.

Thanks, I will try that soon.

I've had this Sears Craftsman jack for over 20 years.

Today I tried to lift the car to get the rear drums adjusted properly, and all the jack would do was leave puddles of oil on the floor. Well, at least it outlasted the company that sold it by a good margin.

Probably the coldest day we'll have this winter, so - it's time to see if I can tweak the cold start settings a little.

Unfortunately once it cranks off, even badly, you don't have much of a shot at repeated adjustments. Hopefully next cold start will go a little better.

I made some adjustments to the rear brakes and the pedal is a bit firmer. Now I'm pondering if I should try getting braided lines to really get  it dialed in.

I do that All the time in the cold season with my MS-II'd '79 Volare.

One shot per day in the cold lab, sometimes 2 if it is very cold during the day at work too.