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rogerdodger
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Jan 15, 2007, 9:29 AM

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I'm having trouble using my brakes, and experts are saying it's my power booster. however, there is NO power booster on my van. never has been one. what next?? any ideas????

Tom Greenleaf
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Jan 15, 2007, 3:08 PM

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I didn't think they made those without power boost??

What are your symptoms?? T

rogerdodger
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Jan 15, 2007, 5:52 PM

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all of a sudden my brake pedal is hard. hard to push, doesn't need brake fluid, checked master cylinder, that's o.k. The weirdest thing happened yesterday. I went to town and knew my van's brakes were messed up so I used extreme caution. The van stalled and when I started it back up the brakes were normal. Normal the next 10 miles or so. I even stopped and shut off the van , still normal then I stop for gas and boom, hard again. The ABS isn't hooked up and everyone we've talked to says that the ABS and manual brake are 2 seperate things. We're stumped!!!!!

Tom Greenleaf
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Jan 15, 2007, 6:24 PM

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The power boost is almost certainly the problem spot. Some cars use PS to a thing called hydro-boost but most use a big vacuum can like a huge donut between master cyl and firewall. If it failed you would have a hard brake pedal and stalling would be likely as engine couldn't feed it with more vacuum fast enough.

There should be a cheap little regulator where vacuum goes into it but the symptoms are not really consistant with that. The booster itself has a large diaphram in it and if it leaks causes hell to pay and only replacement with new or good used would fix that, T

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