bomb gone again?

Nate Stuart nathan.stuart at maine.edu
Thu Feb 15 16:32:17 EST 2001


Did you flush the hyd. fluid when you put the new bomb in? I've heard of
others putting bombs in, only to get the one way valve into the bomb stuck
slightly open do to gunk and crud inside the hyd lines.

Just a thought...
-Nate

> Hi,
>
> I am still fighting my brakes: An occasional flashing of the brake light
in
> the dash has turned into continuous flashing and the lovely three beeps.
At
> the same time the brake pedal is stiff when car is first started but
returns
> to normal after a mile. Testing the bomb reveals that I get 3-5 pumps with
> the enginge off before the pedal stiffens. There is no leak and the bomb
is
> 4 months old. Blau tells me they've never had a defective bomb and it must
> be my pump (Normal assist though as far as I can tell).
> So the question is: is my bomb the culprit? Thank you as always!
>
> Christoph Casati/CASATIDESIGN.COM
>
> 86 5000 CSTQ 164K
> 88 90s 135K




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