While doing some more work to get my car back on the road, I happened to get a GOOD look at the vacuum line leading to the brake booster from underneath the car (the headers are out).

I thought it looked odd, so I looked at it from the top. Looks fine... looked at it from underneath again... sure enough, the damn thing has a hell of a kink in it. The hose was almost completed squashed flat at one point.

No wonder the car didn't stop, and no wonder I replaced the brake booster trying to fix the problem. What I can't understand is why I didn't see the problem with the booster out.

Oh well. I'm going to get some hard metal line to replace most of the vacuum hose with.

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'84 Black Camaro ZZ4 M5 (V-6 in a former life) -- street beast
'91 Medium Blue Metallic Z28 A4 (UB-HSTRY's old ride) -- currently broken
'99 Navy Blue Metallic Firehawk #120 M6 (99.44% stock) -- daily driver

 

Hawk, I was scanning through some old Hot Rod magazines, and saw some cars that had that done... looked damn sweet. What kind of steel line would you use? Brake line?


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Fuel line, actually. Brake line isn't big enough in diameter.