Last night while driving the 1983 300TD wagon I lost my power brakes.
Panic ensued - briefly. They they came back after I pumped them a few
times, then I lost them again several times on the course of a 7 mile
trip. The brakes still worked (it wasn't the master cylinder) but required
a lot of
Vac problem. Check all hoses and connectors for loose, cracked, kinked,
whatever, or it might be time for a vac pump rebuild (though that would
not likely be intermittent).
--R
On 10/26/14 2:16 PM, Andrew Strasfogel via Mercedes wrote:
Last night while driving the 1983 300TD wagon I lost
Were the doors locked during the issue? I've seen lots of cases where door lock
actuators only leak in one state or the other.
Curt
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Door locks were unaffected.
On Sun, Oct 26, 2014 at 2:31 PM, Curt Raymond via Mercedes
mercedes@okiebenz.com wrote:
Were the doors locked during the issue? I've seen lots of cases where door
lock actuators only leak in one state or the other.
Curt
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Door locks were unaffected
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Subject: [MBZ] W123 intermittent loss of power braking (today's puzzler)
Last night while driving the 1983 300TD wagon I lost my power brakes.
Panic ensued - briefly. They they came
.
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Subject: [MBZ] W123 intermittent loss of power braking (today's puzzler)
Last night while
Thats not what I asked you. You could have a door actuator that only
leaks when locked or unlocked, change the state, the leak goes away
and the brakes and shutoff work.
All the vacuum accessories are fed through restrictive orifices
molded in to the main hose, so that even if you leave the
Bad brake boosters can be intermittent for a while, but eventually
give out completely. I split the diaphragm on one in Canada, and only
discovered it was bad when the car stalled every time I stepped on the
brake and I heard a hissing sound from under the dash.
If you don't have a
