Well my pushrod setting turned out rather well. I was scrambling to do all of this to make the a big drive with the Ferrari folks yesterday. I screwed the acorn nut on the pushrod back as far as it would go, which was only 1.5-2 turns. I could still see some thread left to turn against, but I think it's just old and grimy, and probably needs a good shot of WD-40 to loosen it up. The brakes themselves worked great on the whole trip, and they got a good hard workout yesterday, with no problems--UNTIL I went to leave the restaurant. From sitting in the hot sun, without any air to breeze past them, they were clamping down a little. The good part was that 5mins into the drive back home, it went away, as the air cooled them off, and had no problems the rest of the way. So it still looks like the pushrod needs to be adjusted a tad more. But it's already worlds better. Thanks to everyone helping me in my novice ways.
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