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| posted on January 3rd, 2011 at 11:17 PM |
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Beetle with brake booster
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.
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Michael
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| posted on January 4th, 2011 at 12:57 AM |
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| Quote: | 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
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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
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mktchin
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| posted on January 4th, 2011 at 07:46 AM |
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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.
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Michael
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| posted on January 4th, 2011 at 07:58 AM |
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sounds fine to me. ive got one on my car but its not fitted there.
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| posted on January 4th, 2011 at 09:21 AM |
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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
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| posted on January 4th, 2011 at 10:04 AM |
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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
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| posted on January 4th, 2011 at 12:24 PM |
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There couldn't possibly be anyone out there stupid enough to boost only the rear brakes
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| posted on January 4th, 2011 at 06:51 PM |
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As i said there might be another booster for the front or it could have a single circuit master cylinder
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| posted on May 29th, 2011 at 09:52 PM |
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As i said there might be another booster for the front or it could have a single circuit master cylinder
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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.
Its fun to build them, but its great to drive them!
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| posted on May 30th, 2011 at 08:03 AM |
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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.
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| posted on May 30th, 2011 at 08:53 AM |
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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.
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