So what is this Brake Booster?
Or in our case, PT Cruiser Brake Booster?
Well while traveling some 45 to 50 miles from home in
98 degree temperature, this is no time to try and find out.
We did get our baby back home, slowly because she did
have brake, sort of.
Remember how our ancestors traveling out west had to
do to stop their covered wagons?
Once home I rechecked to see if this ‘amateur
mechanic’ could find a quick fix while the computer was warming up.
The internet has bailed me out time and time again
with helpful hints to repair a problem.
Not this time, this is why I am writing today.
A brake booster, many newer vehicles have this type of
system, uses vacuum to help stop your vehicle.
After looking around under the hook and time and time
again asking questions to my server, I spotted a connection that should have
had a hose connected?
No hose, no place to attach the other end of a hose?
If you type into your server the words " Images
of a Brake Booster" you can see the many types of and the possible problem
with them.
We have a 2006 P T Cruiser, the brakes went
hard, she heard a noise I did not, come to find out that it was a vacuum
sucking sound.
The number one tool in millions of homes is?
"DUCK TAPE".
Somehow I need to safely get to a parts store at some
twenty miles away to buy a 1/4" rubber cap to replace the old one, one
would guess got hot and weak enough from brake fluid to just fall off?
It would seem that this particular booster has a
fitting on it capable of hooking up other hoses?
Just think about this, if one could not find this and
many other types of problems, how much would your dealer charge to repair?