Hi!
I believe Front Line Military has NOS ones for $125?
Stu Ellis
Seatrade International
#603-437-1392
----- Original Message -----
From: "jonathon" <jemery@execpc.com>
To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
Sent: Sunday, December 02, 2001 10:09 AM
Subject: [MV] CUCV Brake Systems, Part 2
> > the CUCV doesn't use vacuum brake booster. It uses hydroboost
> >which is powered off of the PS pump. I don't recall if Bendix was the
brand
> >or not.
>
> Thanks for the many replies confirming my suspicion.
>
> Now for the second part of the question. I'm trying to help someone with
a
> small problem that being constant loss of PS fluid. I observed that when,
> and only when, you apply the brakes then release them, for the next 5 to
10
> seconds you see drips of PS oil comming from the joint between the master
> cylinder and the booster. Obvious first guess is that the seal (assuming
> there must be one of some kind) in the booster is leaking, when you apply
> the brakes the fluid comes out and fills the space between, then when you
> release, the master plunger wants to come back but you've got oil in there
> so it is forced to drip out the gasketless joint. Make sense??
>
> So I got out my civy GM unit repair book for my suburban which has the
same
> booster (by eye anyway). Looks like there is in fact a seal on the large
> plunger inside but looks like you have to split the booster in half to get
> it out, meaning does not look like it will just come out the end if the
> master is removed. Anyone have any experiance with these? I would wonder
> if I could just by a civy rebuild kit and split the housing and only deal
> with the plunger seal leaving everything else in place such as the spool
> valve and accumulator and such, thus only replacing the seal and the main
> housing gasket. Btw, the local auto parts store wants $200 for a rebuilt
unit.
>
> Any advice or tips would be greatly appreciated. I asked about vacuum
> boosters as I have one sitting here that would fit, if there was a CUCV
with
> a vacuum pump we could have converted it but then that's alot of work
also.
>
> tia,
>
> je
>
>
>
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