All brake experts inside please!! Need Major Help
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Racer
Joined: May 2005
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From: Casa Grande Az
All brake experts inside please!! Need Major Help
This morning on the way home from work.
Cruising along, down the mountain.... get to the bottem of the hill as i come into town, go to apply brakes.. ROCK HARD PEDAL AND NO STOPPAGE!!
WTF
I have to stand on the pedal to apply any brakeing force at all.
Was kinda scarry ...
But now i need to know where to start to look for the problem.
Something sticking / leaking in the power booster setup? Fluid is full, vac lines are good. I can hear a slight weezing sound inside the car when i apply the breaks. I have never heard that sound before.
Is this something i am going to need to take to a dealer for service?
HELP PLEASE!
Thanks in advance!
Cruising along, down the mountain.... get to the bottem of the hill as i come into town, go to apply brakes.. ROCK HARD PEDAL AND NO STOPPAGE!!
WTF
I have to stand on the pedal to apply any brakeing force at all.
Was kinda scarry ...
But now i need to know where to start to look for the problem.
Something sticking / leaking in the power booster setup? Fluid is full, vac lines are good. I can hear a slight weezing sound inside the car when i apply the breaks. I have never heard that sound before.
Is this something i am going to need to take to a dealer for service?
HELP PLEASE!
Thanks in advance!
Team Owner
Joined: Aug 2000
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From: San Pedro CA
yup... booster. For sure.
Check the vacuum lines to the booster from the manifold.
As a rule of thumb, when the brakes get hard to push, it's the booster, when they are easy to push, it's the master cylinder.
Check the vacuum lines to the booster from the manifold.
As a rule of thumb, when the brakes get hard to push, it's the booster, when they are easy to push, it's the master cylinder.
Melting Slicks
Joined: Apr 2000
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From: Elizabeth City, NC
Yes, like everyone has said it's the booster. Very easy to tackle yourself. The hardest part is contorting yourself to reach the bolts under the dash. Mine was like that as well, just all of a sudden I heard a hissing vacuum noise then next time I went to hit the brakes I nearly wrecked. 
Melting Slicks
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From: Tucson Az
St. Jude Contributor
Originally Posted by bogus
yup... booster. For sure.
Check the vacuum lines to the booster from the manifold.
As a rule of thumb, when the brakes get hard to push, it's the booster, when they are easy to push, it's the master cylinder.
Check the vacuum lines to the booster from the manifold.
As a rule of thumb, when the brakes get hard to push, it's the booster, when they are easy to push, it's the master cylinder.
Drifting
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Thread Starter
Racer
Joined: May 2005
Posts: 497
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From: Casa Grande Az
Ya it only hisses when the pedal is pushed.
Also, in park, the car is idleing lower then it used to. Then i push the pedal and it actually increases my idle (vac leak)
fun fun, what all is entailed if i decide to do this myself?
Also, in park, the car is idleing lower then it used to. Then i push the pedal and it actually increases my idle (vac leak)
fun fun, what all is entailed if i decide to do this myself?
