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rogerdodger
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Jan 15, 2007, 9:29 AM
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1993 Dodge Caravan
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I'm having trouble using my brakes, and experts are saying it's my power booster. however, there is NO power booster on my van. never has been one. what next?? any ideas????
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Tom Greenleaf
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Jan 15, 2007, 3:08 PM
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Re: 1993 Dodge Caravan
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I didn't think they made those without power boost?? What are your symptoms?? T
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rogerdodger
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Jan 15, 2007, 5:52 PM
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Re: 1993 Dodge Caravan
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all of a sudden my brake pedal is hard. hard to push, doesn't need brake fluid, checked master cylinder, that's o.k. The weirdest thing happened yesterday. I went to town and knew my van's brakes were messed up so I used extreme caution. The van stalled and when I started it back up the brakes were normal. Normal the next 10 miles or so. I even stopped and shut off the van , still normal then I stop for gas and boom, hard again. The ABS isn't hooked up and everyone we've talked to says that the ABS and manual brake are 2 seperate things. We're stumped!!!!!
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Tom Greenleaf
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Jan 15, 2007, 6:24 PM
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The power boost is almost certainly the problem spot. Some cars use PS to a thing called hydro-boost but most use a big vacuum can like a huge donut between master cyl and firewall. If it failed you would have a hard brake pedal and stalling would be likely as engine couldn't feed it with more vacuum fast enough. There should be a cheap little regulator where vacuum goes into it but the symptoms are not really consistant with that. The booster itself has a large diaphram in it and if it leaks causes hell to pay and only replacement with new or good used would fix that, T
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