Listers -
A couple of weeks ago my brakes were acting funny. It turned out that all of
the fluid was out of the brake/clutch reservoir. I sent the brake servo into
be repaired at the suggestion of the list. I just talked to the rebuilder and
he said the baffle in the servo was swollen because of a large amount of fuel
present in the booster. He mentioned this is not unusual with TR6â??s. I
guess this can cause the servo to fail and draw the brake fluid into the servo.
Now that the servo is fixed, I donâ??t want a repeat the problem and am
searching for a cause for the presence of fuel. A few months ago I was having
a problem with fuel starvation. It turned out to be a pinched fuel line.
During my long search I made a number of changes including installing a new
distributor cap and wires. Somehow I switched a couple of wires and could not
get a spark in cylinders 5 & 6. I found the problem after quite a bit of
trying to get the car to run smoothly and driving it for 20 - 30 miles. Also,
maybe a contributing factor or maybe not, a year or two ago I moved the vacuum
hose to the induction manifold because I installed air cleaners without a
connection point for the vacuum hose. (Before the fuel starvation issue I
reinstalled the original air cleaners and moved the vacuum hose back up to the
air rear cleaner.)
Now for my question: Could the presence of fuel in the brake booster have been
caused when I was not getting spark and not burning fuel in 5 & 6? Could the
unspent fuel have been sucked into the servo through the induction manifold a
while ago, or through the air cleaners recently?
Thank you so much for your collective thoughts.
Price Lindsay
67 BJ8
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