Hey folks.
Bought a car at the start of the month and had several accounts of the brakes failing. The brake pedal goes solid and I'm unable to press it down. Took it to the garage and they said it was the vacuum pump so replaced it and said it was fixed. Then upon driving to the lake district the same thing happened again but this time along with entire electrical failure of the car. I found out that the negative terminal on the battery was loose so tightened that back on and everything seemed to be fine so I assumed it was that. Then lo and behold it happened again...
Anyway I've done some searching and some forum posts suggest that it might be the " 3" piece of braided rubber pipe between the vacuum pump pipe and the metal pipe running across the bulkhead ". But that it might also be the one way valve that plugs into the servo that the pipework from the vacuum pump connects to.
All I'd like to know is where are these located in my engine? Going to try and have a look myself.
Bought a car at the start of the month and had several accounts of the brakes failing. The brake pedal goes solid and I'm unable to press it down. Took it to the garage and they said it was the vacuum pump so replaced it and said it was fixed. Then upon driving to the lake district the same thing happened again but this time along with entire electrical failure of the car. I found out that the negative terminal on the battery was loose so tightened that back on and everything seemed to be fine so I assumed it was that. Then lo and behold it happened again...
Anyway I've done some searching and some forum posts suggest that it might be the " 3" piece of braided rubber pipe between the vacuum pump pipe and the metal pipe running across the bulkhead ". But that it might also be the one way valve that plugs into the servo that the pipework from the vacuum pump connects to.
All I'd like to know is where are these located in my engine? Going to try and have a look myself.