Rear proportioning valve QUESTIONS

["Horch, August" <Horch.August@tci.com>]

> >There aren't any cables on it
> 
> Pry the lever all the way out to its resting position and try it
> again.
> 
OK, last night gave light to some new & intersting developements.  The
lever was never rusty, in fact I think the rear calipers were replaced
in the very recent past.  The lever worked fine in any case.  I said the
heck with it, put my new brake line in (the real short one that runs the
entire length of the car - Hi Mr. NAPA person, I need a 10 foot section
of brake line, make that metric please) and then pressure bled the
entire system (ATE Super Blue for the curious.)  After a few maladies
with the bleeding process (boy I love rusty cars,) I kicked at the
previously bound rear wheel as I walked by it.  Dumb thing spun right
around.  Now that there's fluid in the system, there is zero binding in
the rear wheel.  Either of them.  So...  The amount that the wheel was
bound was never enough to even slow the car had it been at speed, but
was plenty to make it difficult to spin by hand, so this isn't a safety
thing is it?  Why would the rear caliper bind if there was no fluid in
it?  I'm rather happy everything is back to normal (sorta...) but I'm
still curios as to why it bound when empty...

-August