Twin_Turbo
Der Maulwurf
- Joined
- Mar 5, 2008
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Godda$%#$%34 bloody peeeep &^$&&^^&$!@#@!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
What's up with these junk parts one buys nowadays?
Needed another new brake booster for the truck so I bought one on ebay from A1 Cardone. Anyway, they didn't ship outside Continental US so had it shipped to Karsten and he shipped it to me. Cost an arm and a leg but it got here.
Had to paint it properly first, had a cheap spray bomb finish on it, the case was also still showing the rust pits so I used some high build primer on it and painted it a nice color. All nice and dandy and went to install it. First I noticed it had a rubber harmonica boot on the input side instead of the pink tube to seal off the firewall, luckily I had a couple spares so I swapped it over. With the rubber it never seals the firewall, those are for firewall mounted cases not for those with standoff brackets.
Went to install and lo and behold, something is out of whack, the tube does not fit the hole in the firewall when the studs are engaged in the bracket. Took it off, sure enough the brackets are bent. Not from shipping since the crappy paint was still intact, this was bent as it came from them. Nothing a little persuasion can't fix. Carefully bent it back and got it all installed. Hooked up MC, vac lines and YESS!! power brakes...well, 3 times that is. After depressing the pedal the 4th time upon release...shhhh....wtf? Oh no!! a vac leak...not this shit again! SURE!!!! a hanging floating valve and no more brake assist. AHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!! Who do I have to kill to get decent parts? This fricken thing cost me over 250$ including all the shipping and crap and it worked 3 freaking times.
I now have 3 messed up boosters, an original 27 year old one that actually works best of all of them, it has a very slight vac leak due to a bad sealing floating valve so it has poor assist at idle and works fine at anything off idle (and when coming down to idle). The other 2 are having the same symptoms. Both are remanufactured units.
Should have kept those hydroboosters I had....at least it had super overassisted brakes, beats non assisted brakes.
What's up with these junk parts one buys nowadays?
Needed another new brake booster for the truck so I bought one on ebay from A1 Cardone. Anyway, they didn't ship outside Continental US so had it shipped to Karsten and he shipped it to me. Cost an arm and a leg but it got here.
Had to paint it properly first, had a cheap spray bomb finish on it, the case was also still showing the rust pits so I used some high build primer on it and painted it a nice color. All nice and dandy and went to install it. First I noticed it had a rubber harmonica boot on the input side instead of the pink tube to seal off the firewall, luckily I had a couple spares so I swapped it over. With the rubber it never seals the firewall, those are for firewall mounted cases not for those with standoff brackets.
Went to install and lo and behold, something is out of whack, the tube does not fit the hole in the firewall when the studs are engaged in the bracket. Took it off, sure enough the brackets are bent. Not from shipping since the crappy paint was still intact, this was bent as it came from them. Nothing a little persuasion can't fix. Carefully bent it back and got it all installed. Hooked up MC, vac lines and YESS!! power brakes...well, 3 times that is. After depressing the pedal the 4th time upon release...shhhh....wtf? Oh no!! a vac leak...not this shit again! SURE!!!! a hanging floating valve and no more brake assist. AHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!! Who do I have to kill to get decent parts? This fricken thing cost me over 250$ including all the shipping and crap and it worked 3 freaking times.
I now have 3 messed up boosters, an original 27 year old one that actually works best of all of them, it has a very slight vac leak due to a bad sealing floating valve so it has poor assist at idle and works fine at anything off idle (and when coming down to idle). The other 2 are having the same symptoms. Both are remanufactured units.
Should have kept those hydroboosters I had....at least it had super overassisted brakes, beats non assisted brakes.
