Brake Booster Question

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Yav8

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Aug 19, 2014
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How do you know if you have a bad brake booster. The one we have will idle fine until you step on the brakes and then the idle goes way down.
 
Just got a hurst this week. And it,s doing the same thing And the brakes are hard some body told me it was a bad brake booster
 
Can you hear any hissing by the booster?. If you can then the diaphragm is probably torn. Not a big tear or your engine probably wouldn't idle at all.
In both cases the engine isn't making enough vacuum to operate the booster properly, not because the engine is out of tune but the booster is bad most likely.
If you have a radical cam installed that could also give you the symptoms described, or possibly an idle speed too slow.

Roger.
 
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