PETER Re: [ROVERNET - UK] tough nut (and more brake woes)

[peter king]

Thanks much, Peter. Sounds like a quick fix is in order, then!

pk

On Sep 30, 2006, at 5:29 PM, McArdle wrote:

> Hi Peter,
>    Fix this situation FAST!!And get the car running again as soon  
> as is
> possible. If you can't do the repair soon , disconnect the servo  
> vacuum
> line and get the car running and take it for a drive . Get the engine
> fully warmed up.
>    I have had 2 clients with the same engine as yours( 2.6litre in  
> Land
> Rover )  have their servo go away and bleed into the combustion  
> chamber.
> Both clients just parked the car and decided to deal with it later.(
> couple of months) Well on start up both cars had rotted out their  
> cylinder
> heads in the cylinders closest to the vacuum inlet from the servo.
>    Don't risk the same problem . Hope I helped.
>
> Pete McArdle
> Classic Racing Enterprises
> Sag Harbor NY USA
> Owned, 2 P6b, 1 P6(TC) 2 P5s, 3 Range Rover, 1 Freelander, 2 land  
> Rovers (
> 109 & 88) Dealer and Rover shop since 1956 (I've been in the business
> since 1974)
>
> On Sat, 30 Sep 2006, S Manwell wrote:
>
>> Peter,
>>
>> Sounds like the seal between the brake fluid side and the vacuum
>> cylinder sides of the brake booster failed, and the brake fluid got
>> sucked from the vacuum cylinder into the intake manifold.  I had the
>> same thing happen on my P5 along time ago with the same huge plume of
>> white smoke.
>>
>> --Steve
>>
>>
>>> peter king wrote:
>>>
>>>>  finished the job this morning and I'm back on the road. Good  
>>>> thing,
>>>> because the '63 P5's brakes just went south. I suspect the master
>>>> failed, because the fluid drained and is nowhere to be seen, and  
>>>> when
>>>> I started the car, a huge plume of white smoke poured out. My guess
>>>> is that the fluid has been sucked into the head through the vacuum
>>>> line. Does this sound right to you?
>>>
>>>
>>
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