> >>I am having problems with my MK IIB Girling vacuum brake booster eating
> >>all my hydraulic fluid. Kind of dicey, gettin home with your emergency
> >>(parking) brake.
> >>
> > The next time this happens to someone they should disconnect the
> >vacuum hose from the booster and plug it with something that won't get
> >sucked into it. After doing this you will no longer have power brakes and
> >the first time you use the brakes you might think that they don't work, but
> >they will work fine, you just have to use more pedal pressure. This is much
> >better than using the hand brake.
> >Doug Pruitt
> >Frederick, Maryland
> >
> >Zort!
> >
> >
> Doug,
> PLEASE DO NOT do this!. If the fluid is leaking inside the unit you
>may
> be killed! If only the vacuum part is bad it might work. The best way is to
> bypass the unit with a splice in the brake line eliminating the power unit all
> together. You wind up with reasonable and safe brakes with only a little more
> peddle pressure. Of course you also remove the the vacumn line from
> the manifold and stop up the hole to allow your motor to run.
> Jim Barrett Tiger II 351C and others.
>
Another reason to tie off the vacuum line is to avoid sucking fluid into
the intake manifold. Glycol based fluid may not be a problem but I'm
not so sure about silicone based fluids.
Roland
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