No Brakes, please help...

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Kenji Kamuro
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alright, short and simple... I have no brakes. while sitting at a stop light my engine starts sputtering (figure its the intake piping again :tisk: ) next thing I know, brake pedal shoots up off the floor with good amount of force. I slam the pedal back down and nothing, i keep rolling. the resevoir emptied itself completely. (all fluid into the lines) any ideas whats wrong..? did i collapse a vacuum line or blow the booster diaphram? I've even bled the lines multiple times in hopes its just an odd air bubble stuck somewhere.


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Ace2cool
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Brake booster vacuum line. It's the big vacuum line on the top of the brake booster. It's most likely disconnected, but it may have cracked. Just give it a good look over.

marty1mc
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If you emptied the fluid reservoir on the master, then there is more going on than a vacuum leak. I would check the master first, sounds to me like it failed. Find where the fluid went to be sure.


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