Date:         Tue, 2 Nov 2004 08:28:49 -0700
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From:         jimt <wetwesty@TACTICAL-BUS.INFO>
Subject:      Re: variable brake pedal travel / Internal Leak
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On 11/2/04 6:55 AM, "George Goff" <THX0001@AOL.COM> wrote:

> << I have noted a variance In pedal movement that I have tracked to amount of
> 
> vacuum in the system. >>
> 
> Better stay on the trail because, considering the functioning and
> construction of a vacuum brake booster, it is impossible for a vacuum leak to
> change the
> amount of brake pedal movement.  A vacuum leak might cause the perception of
> the amount of movement to seem different, but that is all it will change.

Correct.  The movement itself is the same, it is the point that I perceive
the heavier pressures at that changes.  Probably a range of about half inch
for the variance.
Could actually be less and seem to be more.

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