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 Blue Bus
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| posted on May 22nd, 2007 at 09:21 PM |
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Motor cuts out when you push hard down on brake pedal
Hi there all
Just wondering if anyone could help with a problem on a friends kombi. Its a 2lt twin carb motor all standard and the motor cuts out when you push
hard down on brake pedal so where do i look to fix the problem.
Any help would be great.
Cheers Rick
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| posted on May 22nd, 2007 at 09:27 PM |
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break booster sounds like there is a bad leak in the vacume line
and make sure there is not a ddead short in the break line 4 the stop lights
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| posted on May 22nd, 2007 at 09:41 PM |
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Hi there Greedy53
Do you mean where the vacume lines join the brake booster.
Cheers Rick
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| posted on May 22nd, 2007 at 10:04 PM |
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yep check the vacume lines ,from the motor forward to the booster,usually one of the rubber joins has perished
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| posted on May 23rd, 2007 at 06:33 PM |
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for a quick test block of the vacume pipe from the manafold at the manafold than push the stopperl if it don't stop
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| posted on May 23rd, 2007 at 06:52 PM |
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Fixed the problem thanks by replacing the front vacume hoses (the old ones were a bit thin and brittle).
Thanks once again
Cheers Rick
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| posted on May 23rd, 2007 at 08:18 PM |
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there ya go all better
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| posted on May 23rd, 2007 at 08:57 PM |
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| Quote: | Originally
posted by Blue Bus
Hi there all
the motor cuts out when you push hard down on brake pedal so
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Try pushing the clutch pedal, too 
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