Thread: Lifespan of a 300tdi brake vacuum pump?

I think mine may have failed gradually over some time. As I am a big lad I think I had just got used to pushing harder on the pedal.

We wnt away with family of 5 and a huge load of stuff in the 130 and camper on the back. I had just thought it was harder to pull up!. it had just been in to an LR specialist for loads of work including brake bleeding and new Pads etc.

Took camper off in bendigo and wife went for a drive, she nearly cleaned up our friends she was following and a few other cars!

I checked the brake booster and pump after coppong abuse when she returned and the pump was stuffed.

where to get one between Christmas and new year in VIC? LR quoted $976 + GST... Oh crap there goes the holiday. Rang around and after much torchure RoverCraft sold me a Wabco for a bargain price and after 40 min to fit the brakes were all better again.

I almost think it worth carrying a spare!

Cheers

james

Originally Posted by zwitter

I think mine may have failed gradually over some time. As I am a big lad I think I had just got used to pushing harder on the pedal.

We wnt away with family of 5 and a huge load of stuff in the 130 and camper on the back. I had just thought it was harder to pull up!. it had just been in to an LR specialist for loads of work including brake bleeding and new Pads etc.

Took camper off in bendigo and wife went for a drive, she nearly cleaned up our friends she was following and a few other cars!

I checked the brake booster and pump after coppong abuse when she returned and the pump was stuffed.

where to get one between Christmas and new year in VIC? LR quoted $976 + GST... Oh crap there goes the holiday. Rang around and after much torchure RoverCraft sold me a Wabco for a bargain price and after 40 min to fit the brakes were all better again.

I almost think it worth carrying a spare!

Cheers


james

Wow $976+GST By the time you add GST I could purchase 3 pumps for that price....Have two spares

Iam just waiting for my parts to turn up and I double checked after Justins comments that mine was going to be a Wabco before I handed over my Hard Earned cash.

Just replace it, mine has done 270000km now and once i finish at the academy i will be replacing it later in the year, my fix got a couple more years out of it, but its on its last legs now. 340000km is a good run.

Mine had been leaking for a while and I did the fix. When I had the pump apart I noticed one of the valves seemed a bit loose, so I did my best to fix that. After that no more leaks and it worked as well as it had before. However, I probably only got about 10,000k more before suddenly no power braking, the valve had popped out and got chewed up. Pump had done 285,000k.

With this experience I would not bother fixing again I don't think, the valves are not made to be repaired. I replaced with a new WABCO for $400, but having taken one apart I am not that impressed with the design or build. Interestingly enough, I have not noticed any change in the pedal with the new pump.

My few cents worth.

Dans

the international 2.8 motor drops the cam driven pump in favour of an alternator vacuum pump, as per every other diesel on the market. This cant be a hard swap. Has anybody done this?

Well the pump that I installed just over 4 years ago crapped itself tonight, all of a sudden I could hear loud tap sounds and then a hard pedal . Overall from the research on here I've had a good run with it. But I should confess that I new it was making a unusual tap sound for awhile now but it never effected the braking and it wasn't leaking oil, so I left it alone.

Well they say things happen in three's as I just fixed the injector pump leak last weekend, so what's next

Originally Posted by MacFamily

so what's next

a 130 replaces the 110

Originally Posted by weeds

a 130 replaces the 110

If only it was that easy, she is attached to that 110 like it is one of our kids.

One day mate one day I will join the 130 club or 6x6