Brakes Help

Here is the situation. Truck has 217k. I have not done anything to the brakes in the 6 years that I have owned the truck. So I did some research and decided to go with the caliper upgrade and rotor upgrade from a 2009 4runner I believe. I replaced drums shoes and wheel cylinders at the rear. Replaced the rubber brake lines up front with stainless steel lines. Got all this done and evacuated the remaining fluid from the reservoir and replaced with new DOT 3 fluid. Finally we bled the brakes. Went to take if a drive and had no pedal. Came back and bled the brakes again and repeated to no real pedal. So I contacted my brother to come over and we did the ABS bleed procedure with his computer and finally adjusted the rear shoes some more. While I have some pedal now I don't feel it is as stiff as it should be after all this has been done.
Initially we adjusted the rears to hear a light rub like I had seen in many you tube "university" videos. Which was not adequate. So I adjusted so that the drum was not necessarily hard to slide on but there was resistance to get it to slide on.
My question is do I need to adjust a little more to get the pedal to feel better or is there something else I am over looking. I am asking because while my parking break works I feel it could perform a little better as well. But my concern is having the rears adjusted to tight. This is my first time doing brakes on a Tacoma so anything that I may be overlooking or just my inexperience with the Tacoma brake system and I just need to tighten the rears a little more. Any feed back is appreciated.

 

With the addition of bigger front calipers, you're pushing more fluid with the stock size master cylinder. With that, your pedal is going to feel different/softer no matter how well your brakes are bled because it takes a longer pedal stroke to push the required amount of fluid. If you want/need a firmer pedal, you'll need to look in to upgrading your master cylinder and booster as well. Or just live with a softer pedal feel.

 

That makes sense. I just didn't see any one mention that on the post I had used to research this before hand. I guess that will be the next step thanks for the quick reply and feed back.