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Old Dec 9, 2006 | 12:34 PM
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Brake issues Help!!

Ok Guy's I'm going down the road today and all of a sudden I have no power brakes!! What gives here I kept pumping the breaks and the peddle finaly came back to the way it was,it was almost like a gasser with a big cam that ran out of vaccum,could there be somthing wrong with the pump??
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Old Dec 9, 2006 | 03:55 PM
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The 95 has a vacuum booster, and a vacuum pump mounted down with the power steering pump. The usual cause of loss of power in these systems is either a vacuum hose off somewhere, or the vacuum pump is failing.

Given that the brakes came back, I would suspect your vacuum pump is failing.
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Old Dec 9, 2006 | 07:42 PM
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I'd say you've lost vacuum or your master cylinders going.
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Old Dec 9, 2006 | 09:18 PM
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Insufficient hydraulic pressure in the brake lines, or not enough vacuum from the pump... have you given it a chance to happen again? If the problem is on the brake fluid side of the system, it ought to be consistently hard to stop.
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Old Dec 10, 2006 | 06:57 AM
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Yes I have given it time to come back and it has it only did this for a moment and then returned to normal?? When the vacuum pump fails I would think it would be all or nothing?? Anyone have this experiance??
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