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Old 07-03-2016, 06:43 PM   #4
MikeCStig
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Re: Help! My brakes!

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Originally Posted by Tiffany1983 View Post
Thank you. If it were the booster wouldn't my brake be high and hard? Or is that not always the case?
Not necessarily. In the case of an immediate catastrophic failure of the brake booster, yes the pedal would get stiff and hard to operate. Sometimes the brake booster starts acting up gradually. For a while it will still sort of work, just not as well as it should.
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