Brake Drum Wheel Cylinder problems of the 1996 Chevrolet C/k Pickups

96 silverado 4x4 rear brake line rusted through, repaired. 6 months later front crossover brake line rusted through, repaired. Put new brakes/rotors on front, new shoes on rear w/new wheel cylinders and new rear brake hose, old hose burst. Bled system, but pedal still spongy. Brakes not working. Takes forever to stop this truck, dangerous. I am a professional driver, and this truck is the worst. The other bad ones were chevy luminas, which were similar with spongy pedal and extended stop distances. The truck has a delay between pedal push and braking starting. Excessive pedal pressure required, doesn't do much good. I towed a trailer with it once, and was scared to death. Engine has lots of power, brakes are useless. Antilock system is dangerous, causes the truck to swerve. Gm knows this system is "unsafe at any speed" just like the old corvairs were. Ralph nader where are you when we need you? no one else in the government has done anything. They don't care or are on the take. Otherwise this blatant defect would have been recalled! also my sister owns a yukon, 1996, and her antilock system activated all the time on dry road, and almost caused several accidents. She took it to a dealer and they replaced the brake booster and did the brakes. It didn't stop the antilock problem, so I disconnected the fuse to the antilock system and it stopped the faulty activation, but the brakes are still spongy, and the truck is dangerous to drive. Another friend was injured and the 1996 suburban was totalled, and the car she hit was totalled and the driver injured, when she stepped on the brakes and they didn't work. She said the pedal was spongy for awhile, and the truck was hard to stop. She was being careful because of this but someone stopped short in front of her and she said she should have been able to stop but the brakes did not work. How many more people have to be hurt or killed before the ntsb makes a recall for this? what good are they if they do nothing?.

Brakes defective, front crossover brake line under transmission support burst. Upon examination of brake system, all brake lines and brake hoses replaced, due to corrosion, front rotors and pads replaced, rear drums and linings replaced, with new brake hardware as well, and rear brake wheel cylinders. Brakes bled according to procedure, but pedal still spongy. Brakes bled two more times with no improvement in sponginess. Brakes have time delay between stepping on pedal and activation of brakes. Brakes are inadequate for empty truck. Carrying load on truck or pulling trailer is just plain scary and dangerous, as brakes do not stop truck. Antilock system does not work. Putting all my weight, 275 pounds, and all my strength, on brakes when truck is empty, and on a wet road, will lock the front brakes, but no antilock functions. Bad brakes are a common gm problem across all model lines. I have owned 3 chevy luminas with similar problems. I demand that the government do something about this! if you don't, why the hell are you there and us paying your salaries? I could have been killed when the plain steel brake line broke. This is the 21st century, why does this happen? get off your dead asses and make gm fix the problem! if you force them to do recalls, they might think twice about making substandard, unsafe at any speed, vehicles. The engine in this truck is very powerful, the brakes can't hope to keep up with the power and speed that this truck is capable of.