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Beetle with brake booster

mktchin - January 3rd, 2011 at 11:17 PM

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 - January 4th, 2011 at 12:57 AM

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Originally posted by mktchin
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 - January 4th, 2011 at 07:46 AM

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 - January 4th, 2011 at 07:58 AM

sounds fine to me. ive got one on my car but its not fitted there.

Joel - January 4th, 2011 at 09:21 AM

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 - January 4th, 2011 at 10:04 AM

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 - January 4th, 2011 at 12:24 PM

There couldn't possibly be anyone out there stupid enough to boost only the rear brakes

vwo60 - January 4th, 2011 at 06:51 PM

As i said there might be another booster for the front or it could have a single circuit master cylinder

Bugged - May 29th, 2011 at 09:52 PM

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Originally posted by vwo60
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 - May 30th, 2011 at 08:03 AM

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 - May 30th, 2011 at 08:53 AM

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Originally posted by 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.