[DeTomaso] BRAKE HELP NEEDED

MikeLDrew at aol.com MikeLDrew at aol.com
Thu Jun 14 11:24:36 EDT 2012


In a message dated 6/14/12 4 19 57, mikael_hass at mail.tele.dk writes:


> Chris, FYI I have less vacuum than you have at idle, and no braking 
> problems (all new parts from Dennis Quella), so I don't think it's a vacuum 
> issue.
> 
> 

Well, I suspect it *is* a vacuum issue, but not the simple kind (i.e. not 
the fact that the engine doesn't make enough vacuum).

All the vacuum in the world won't help a bad booster.   And your symptoms 
sound like a bad booster to me.   You've already got one gimmick piled on top 
of another, but the fundamentals need to be right too.

I know Dennis Quella sells rebuilt boosters for a rather hefty price, with 
a core charge on top of that.   Others here have reported great luck having 
their boosters rebuilt by specialists for quite a bit less (Dennis is 
undoubtedly sending his out to one of those guys and paying the same rate you 
would, then marking them up, which is not an unreasonable thing to do).

I'd definitely give that a try.

Mike (who has mushy brakes due to inexplicable loops that were put into his 
hard lines when the car was restored--new hard lines are in a box, waiting 
for installation--and they might be there quite awhile!)


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