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Re: Brake Fluid Loss

To: ian@g0rtf.demon.co.uk, alpines@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: Brake Fluid Loss
From: JACranwell@cs.com
Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2001 05:52:17 EDT
Suspect the brake servo. This si one place you could have 'internal 
bleeding', with no outward signs. You would have fluid leaking into the 
vacuum chamber of the booster, if this were the case. The vanishing fluid 
would then be sucked into the engine, via the vacuum pipe, and finally 
blasted out into the atmosphere.

To test, remove the booster end of the pipe, and employ olfactory testing 
device to detect unwanted fluid.

I've suffered just such a failure, which was quickly fixed with a booster 
overhaul.

Most of all, don't use the car until fixed, as could prove embarrasing, 
should the whole system fail. It will not get any better, without surgery.

Regards,


Julian - SIII

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