IF you can keep the car still when in gear and the pedal is stiff and not bottoming out or spongy, then you have a bad booster. Easy to install yourself in 1-3 hours depending. If there is spongyness or the thing bottoms out, you have a failed system or may have one circuit dead with a leaking hose, line, or something.
PLEASE NOTE: If you do not know when the last time was that your car had the system flushed, new components installed, or whatnot, you would do well to consider 3 new soft hoses, new calipers/wheel cylinders, and a new master cylinder. It is probable that the soft lines at least are original and are now over 30 years old!!!
Please consider redoing the system now that you're there.
I got an email from somone on my 72 parts car looking for a used caliper the other day. Don't scrimp - do the brakes right and don't think about it again for the foreseeable future.
Good luck.
-Kenyon
joel hunter <thejoel_hunter@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
i have no pressure for the brake. im having to use the parking brake to remain stopped at lights. it gradually faded. when i first got the car three months ago, they actuallt gripped too firm. no i have to depress the pedal all the way down and stand on it just to keep from rolling. is the problem the booster or something else?
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