[Colin S]

Thank you for all you very helpful advice. All the hydraulic cylinders, hoses and steel lines were replaced after the long storage and are now less that 5 years old. I will check that the springs are all correct and the shoes are centered.I think that I have suffcient free play on the pedal and I did adjust it to the maximum thinking that this might be the problem. It now seems most likely that the shoes may have been comtaminated at sometime in the past and simply cleaned and re-used. While I am in the USA I will try to get a new set of shoes. I am still not clear as to the difference between the primary and secondary lining. Woven material on the secondary and moulded on the primary as with a Lincoln-Zephyr ? Thank you all for your most valuable input which is very much apprecated.