I started out to replace the brake booster on the Blue Truck tonight after work. When I pulled the master cylinder loose from the booster, I found out where my brake fluid has been disappearing to. Of course, the rear seal in the master is leaking. It's a very slow leak. It takes almost a year to leak out. I couldn't tell that any was running down the booster either. So it's back inside so that I can give money to Rock Auto.
Then I found out that the push rod in the reman booster is sticking out exactly the same as the one on my old booster.
I put the reman booster on and was just going to slip the master back on so that I can drive the truck and found out that the studs on the reman booster are about 1/8" closer together than the ones on the old one are.
Why can't they just make one style of these parts?
Tomorrow, I'm going to borrow a drill from work (I have very few tools at home) and drill out the mounting holes a little bit bigger so the master will fit onto the booster. If the new one doesn't fit, then I'll do the same thing to it too. I'm tired of all of these simple parts being slightly different.
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