Blknight.aus
24th May 2008, 01:19 PM
For those of you who pay attention... no wait Ive done that line already..
as part of the provent fitout thing Im doing I needed to work on the alternator, part of the reason I chose this is becuase Ive had a funny noise coming from the alternator area of the engine and a wierd problem with the brakes occassionaly Id get variable vacume assist on the brakes.
hands up everyone whose thinking dying vacume pump on the alternator.:arms: I was.
The noise was a small leaf on a twig that was rubbing the inside of the pully and the vac pump worked perfectly... so I was lost the brake problems I was having lead me to believe that it had to be the pump and was thinking more along the lines of having to do the brake booster
when I drove out of the workshop after pulling the vac actuators as part of the prep work I hit the brakes and nearly went through the windshield...
When I got home I tested the actuators on an improvised vac pump made from a brake bleeder and sure enough one of them was leaking and pretty badly.
as I a side point Im wondering how many EGR problems are being caused by an actuator going funny...
as part of the provent fitout thing Im doing I needed to work on the alternator, part of the reason I chose this is becuase Ive had a funny noise coming from the alternator area of the engine and a wierd problem with the brakes occassionaly Id get variable vacume assist on the brakes.
hands up everyone whose thinking dying vacume pump on the alternator.:arms: I was.
The noise was a small leaf on a twig that was rubbing the inside of the pully and the vac pump worked perfectly... so I was lost the brake problems I was having lead me to believe that it had to be the pump and was thinking more along the lines of having to do the brake booster
when I drove out of the workshop after pulling the vac actuators as part of the prep work I hit the brakes and nearly went through the windshield...
When I got home I tested the actuators on an improvised vac pump made from a brake bleeder and sure enough one of them was leaking and pretty badly.
as I a side point Im wondering how many EGR problems are being caused by an actuator going funny...