when I was doing my drum brakes for the first time a piston got pushed out a bit too much and a bunch of fluid came out. now its harder to push down on my pedal, does this mean air got into my brake line when i popped the cylinder back in or something?
Drum brake piston popped out changed shoes(fluid leaked), do i need to bleed brakes now?
yes it sounds like an air lock, bleed them out as far as the e brake when you put the drums back on did you knock of the e brake cable? it is easy to do with some cars it just lets the cable slid with out catching if you did your brakes you probably know how to bleed them but here are 3 sites any way
Drum brake piston popped out changed shoes(fluid leaked), do i need to bleed brakes now?
yup,bleed the brakes
You say the brake pedal is %26quot;harder to push down%26quot;, and it should be the other way around if there were air in it. But I would bleed it any way, just in case.
As for the emergency brake, while you can adjust the cable, you normally shouldn't.
When the parking brake is loose, it is usually due to the rear shoes not being adjusted right.
Either manually adjust them, or repeat the auto adjustment sequence.
Which is normally to apply the parking brake in reverse, over and over.
If the pedal get hard to push, often that is a symptom of frozen wheel cylinders.
How old is the car?
