Hi
I went to see a 1975 Super Beetle today. While looking under the rear bench seat for rust, I found that it had a vacuum assisted servo for the brake system. Has anyone seen this before? It was in the space under seat on the other side of the battery. There was a vacuum hose from the engine bay to the servo.
The Beetle was fine otherwise.
Cheers
Michael
68AutoBug ·
mktchin wrote:Hi
I went to see a 1975 Super Beetle today. While looking under the rear bench seat for rust, I found that it had a vacuum assisted servo for the brake system. Has anyone seen this before? It was in the space under seat on the other side of the battery. There was a vacuum hose from the engine bay to the servo.
The Beetle was fine otherwise.
Cheers
Michael
New one on Me...
but late model type 2 kombis had brake boosters so, I can't really see the reason why a beetle cannot have a booster..??
LEE
Photos would be great...
mktchin ·
Hi Lee
I didn't take a photo. The car was listed in carsales.com.au.
It is the white 1974 VW 1303 for $6999. No photos of the servo in the ad either.
The car had a very complete engine. All vacuum hoses present, carbon canister, thermostatic bellow.
The servo under the seat put me off though. The guy bought it off a dealer and wasn't using it much.
Cheers
Michael
barls ·
sounds fine to me. ive got one on my car but its not fitted there.
Joel ·
If it's under the rear seat it's not going to be a brake booster, they are a part of the master cylinder which is under the fuel tank.
Probably something silly like a cruise control servo or similar
vwo60 ·
it probably a vh 40 or 44 remote booster, i wonder if it is on the whole brake circuit, being a dual circuit system you would need two to boost both back and front
Joel ·
There couldn't possibly be anyone out there stupid enough to boost only the rear brakes
vwo60 ·
As i said there might be another booster for the front or it could have a single circuit master cylinder
Bugged ·
vwo60 wrote:As i said there might be another booster for the front or it could have a single circuit master cylinder
sorry i know this is an old thread, it would be illegal to fit a single master cylinder to a 75model vehicle ADR's require a dual master cylinder in case one circuit fails so you don't loose brakes completely.
vwo60 ·
That does not stop people from doing stupid things like that, it's also illegal to narrow a beam and there's plenty of those around.
matberry ·
vwo60 wrote:That does not stop people from doing stupid things like that, it's also illegal to narrow a beam and there's plenty of those around.