I'll get back to the details of the brake work shortly, but suffice to say, for this post, that I've got the brake system back together and it works!!
So, having made sure that the hydraulic brakes as well as the handbrake will both hold the car stationary when trying to push manually, I tried putting it in gear. It moves in both forward and reverse gears (it's automatic), and the brake holds it. I need a lot of pressure on the brakes, but suspect that's because I haven't bled them with the engine running, so will need to remove some additional air in the slave cylinder when the servo is activated.
Due to a big drop off from the garage floor to the path outside, I didn't move the car outside of the garage, to avoid damaging the under-side (I'll get some wood to take up some of the drop), but even so I drove it forward about 6 feet, and reversed it the same distance. Not far, I know, but after 15 months of working (intermittently) on the engine and the brakes, and understanding that the car hadn't run for 6-7 years before that, I'm ecstatic that it will actually run under its own power.
Now I just need to bleed the brakes with the engine running, then get it outside and see how it moves over distance. WATCH THIS SPACE!!!!!!!!
