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Offline Irish_Alley

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brake booster problem
« on: August 06, 2009, 11:32:20 pm »
well driving my truck today and while driving i noticed it was acting funny with the idle so i popped the hood and saw 2 out of 4 mounting tabs on the carb were broke so i temp fixed that problem and tried to get home, now i have an vacuum leak and she kept wanted to stall out. comming up to a red light in town she just dies so i had to depend on brakes with no vacuum to power them stopped it in time, but now everytime i use the brakes she dies i can hear the booster just sucking air when the breaks are being used. guess i pressed to hard trying to stop those 38's and it broke the booster
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Re: brake booster problem
« Reply #1 on: August 12, 2009, 06:53:30 pm »
What was your temporary fix for the carb?

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Re: brake booster problem
« Reply #2 on: August 14, 2009, 11:21:34 pm »
well it was really complicated since the two corners that broke were across from one another i just had to tighten the carb down with the other two using more tq than i would like to but it worked, but i still had a big vacuum leak that was a big problem but the gas leaking out was fixed. when i said temp fix i meant i just rigged it up to get back home.
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