[DeTomaso] BRAKE HELP NEEDED

[Tomas Gunnarsson]

Deviating from original topic: if your hard lines are normal size there is
no way air is going to stay in the loops when you bleed the system. If they
were garden hose size, yes, but not the thin original lines.

Tomas

-----Original Message-----
From: detomaso-bounces at realbig.com
[mailto:detomaso-bounces at realbig.com]On Behalf Of MikeLDrew at aol.com
Sent: den 14 juni 2012 17:25
To: mikael_hass at mail.tele.dk; clewis at dmn.net; detomaso at realbig.com
Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] BRAKE HELP NEEDED


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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