IDIBRONCO
IDIBRONCO
Now to update this older thread. Yesterday afternoon, I pulled up to my garage to unload a ladder and my ATV ramps from the bed. Then I headed over to some friends' house to pick up the siding for my garage addition. As I backed out into the street from my garage, I had nothing but a hard brake pedal. I glanced at my vacuum gauge and it was reading 0. When I got into their driveway, I popped the hood to look. I saw oil that had been flung all the way back to the heater box and the firewall. I new for sure that the vacuum pump had gone bad so I shut the hood again and went on doing my business. This morning, I went outside to change the pump and put the old, barely functioning pump that I carry as a spare back on the truck. I found that the back of the drive unit had disappeared like so many others in this thread had. Since there is nothing to connect the drive shaft to the pump part that works the pod, I'm assuming that the pod itself is still good. I have a couple of old vacuum pumps that are still good so I'm going to change this pod over to one of the old drive units. Since it's going to be below freezing for the next couple of days, that sounds like a good project to do inside my house. I won't get the new combination put on my truck until Sunday or Monday when it warms back up a little bit.
My thinking for doing this is that it seems like it's the drive units themselves that are going bad in this thread and not the vacuum pods themselves. Maybe my way is a solution for keeping the vacuum brakes in the future?
My thinking for doing this is that it seems like it's the drive units themselves that are going bad in this thread and not the vacuum pods themselves. Maybe my way is a solution for keeping the vacuum brakes in the future?