To brake with a servo brake system where the servo has failed is absolutely
not the same as to brake with a brake system, which has no servo equipped at
all!
One cannot compare.
A brake system where the servo is in malfunction is very hard to brake
anyway!
A brake system without a servo works normally very well on a MGB. (I've got
the US spec tandem master cyl type).
I know this of experience, of one occasion, when my regular car's engine
stalled and the servo lost it's vacuum. The car was running still on a
crossroad - with no control.
Brakes were almost not effective - most dangerous situation.
Cheers,
Hans
'71 BGT
----- Original Message -----
From: "1971MGB" <1971mgb@cox.net>
To: <mgs@autox.team.net>
Sent: Monday, November 21, 2005 3:10 PM
Subject: Re: Faultless MGB-GT
>I have got to share this story with you all, years ago I lived in St.
> Albans near London and worked in downtown London, I drove my MGB on a
> daily
> bases to work, one day my servo went out my friend said just by-pass the
> servo, you don't need, we completed the modification in the evening the
> next
> day before driving out of my driveway first time I applied my brakes I
> found
> out I needed legs of steel to come to a stop, being young I decided to
> drive
> in to London anyway. What a trip!!!!!!!
> We found a servo in a junk yard that evening and everything was well.
> B.
>
>
> Sent: Monday, November 21, 2005 5:02 AM
> Subject: Re: Faultless MGB-GT
>
>
>> You would be surprised, perhaps, at how little difference this makes to
>> brake pressure.
>>
>> PaulH.
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> > 4. Make sure the car you get has a brake servo, or you fit one if it
>> > doesn't.
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