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Old 07-23-2016, 04:53 PM
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Originally Posted by crwarren11 View Post
I ended up replacing the booster and it solved the initial problem. The first booster I put it was bad, so if you go this route listen for any kind of rattle inside the booster when you gently shake it. If something sounds loose then it is not good, don't waste your time installing it. Just get a new unit. Through the course of all of the work, I did end up with a ton of air in the brake lines because I had a bad new booster the first go-round. Replaced that and all was good except for all of the air that I had introduced. I could not get INPA to run the brake bleed program, so ultimately I had to take the car in for the airbag recall anyway and I just paid $100 to dealership to bleed my brakes properly. If you can push your foot all the way to the floor and the car still wants to creep forward, then I would say it is likely the booster, even though traditional thinking says this is the master cylinder.
So there is a slight chance that it was air caught somewhere in the system,
and when the dealer activated the ABS via their brake bleed service procedure it eliminated the increased pedal travel ,
coincidentally after you replaced the booster?
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