Phil "I am NOT putting power brakes in my Lotus" Ethier writes:
> I had a left-hand-drive 2000TC and this unit was on the right side of the
> engine bay, away from the driver. In most Yank cars, the vacuum booster is
> mounted right on the master cylinder, but I guess Rover used two cylinders.,
> so they could put the booster somewhere else. The failure I had was that the
> brakes would not release. After it was "fixed" by a professional, brake fluid
> filled up the vacuum chamber.
Hmmm. It sounds to me like the problem was in the master cylinder, not in
the booster. After all, the brake fluid had to be leaking to begin with in
order for the (otherwise properly functioning) booster to fill up, right?
This was the problem with the famous 1980 Malibu I described some months ago,
driven nonetheless by a very determined lady who used her left foot to pry up
the brake pedal as she used her right foot to apply the gas.
-- Andy
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