Need Help with These Dam Brakes, Just Installed Power Booster.
01-12-2002, 02:33 AM
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Need Help with These Dam Brakes, Just Installed Power Booster.
Need help with these dam brakes, I just installed a rebuilt power brake booster and the brakes a very mushy and when I depress the brake pedal it seems that I am not compressing the master cylinder. Could the rebuilt Power Booster come with a very short shaft that compresses the master brake cylinder. “ I did not remove the brake lines from the master cylinder when I removed the Power Booster.
01-12-2002, 09:55 AM
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Re: Need Help with These Dam Brakes, Just Installed Power Booster. (73-454)
I have never done this but I guess that you could unbolt the master cylinder and check the travel of the shaft from the power booster. This should answer your question on if it is working. I suspect travel should be about and inch or so. Did you check vacuum to the booster as well?
01-12-2002, 09:59 AM
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Re: Need Help with These Dam Brakes, Just Installed Power Booster. (PatG)
you have to install the shaft correctly onto the power booster...
you turn the shaft to lengthen it so when u put the master cylinder on it, there is no "play" in the shaft..
so when u press the brake pedal, it will push the master cylinder piston in without having to travel any....
thats the best i can explain it...
you turn the shaft to lengthen it so when u put the master cylinder on it, there is no "play" in the shaft..
so when u press the brake pedal, it will push the master cylinder piston in without having to travel any....
thats the best i can explain it...
01-12-2002, 02:02 PM
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Re: Need Help with These Dam Brakes, Just Installed Power Booster. (73-454)
I continue to learn here.I did not know that I was supposed to adjust the rod between the booster and master cylinder.I must have blundered into the correct setting because mine seems to be working fine.I hope it stays that way.i don't ever want to replace another brake booster.
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