At 03:17 am 2/24/97 +0000, you wrote:
>At 03:03 PM 2/23/97 +0000, you wrote:
>>I am having problems with my MK IIB Girling vacuum brake booster eating
>>all my hydraulic fluid. Kind of dicey, gettin home with your emergency
>>(parking) brake.
>>
> The next time this happens to someone they should disconnect the
>vacuum hose from the booster and plug it with something that won't get
>sucked into it. After doing this you will no longer have power brakes and
>the first time you use the brakes you might think that they don't work, but
>they will work fine, you just have to use more pedal pressure. This is much
>better than using the hand brake.
>Doug Pruitt
>Frederick, Maryland
>
>Zort!
>
>
Doug,
PLEASE DO NOT do this!. If the fluid is leaking inside the unit you may
be killed! If only the vacuum part is bad it might work. The best way is to
bypass the unit with a splice in the brake line eliminating the power unit all
together. You wind up with reasonable and safe brakes with only a little more
peddle pressure. Of course you also remove the the vacumn line from
the manifold and stop up the hole to allow your motor to run.
Jim Barrett Tiger II 351C and others.
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