[DeTomaso] BRAKE HELP NEEDED

[Will Kooiman]

So, why do many cars have loops in the hard lines?

My 93 Mustang had them at the master.

On Jun 14, 2012, at 10:24 AM, MikeLDrew at aol.com wrote:

> 
> 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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