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Old Aug 18, 2008 | 05:12 PM
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Truck Breaks

OK.....well some one cut my powersteering line awhile backand well I fixed it but since then my break pedal gets real hard and stiff and is hard to stop. The fluid was a lil low and I filled it up and it helped a lil but still the same. The break light comes on too.

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Old Aug 18, 2008 | 05:47 PM
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Vacuum pump going bad or someone cut one of the vacuum lines too.
Dirty sumbiatches need a good butt whoopin for touching your truck.
 
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Old Aug 18, 2008 | 06:37 PM
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Ya I was Lake Somerville and it happined and when or if I fined out who did it its not going to be pretty. They didnt cut it all they through so I was driving it home and was coming around a turn doing bout 40 and my power steering went out and so I hit the breaks and went to the floor so I put the parking break to the floor and drove it out into a pasture. Could have been bad but I did the best I could. I think it might be the vp too. I thought maybe I still have air in the system but the powersteering feels fine and brake pedal is stiff not mushy!! ?
 
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Old Aug 18, 2008 | 08:04 PM
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Holy is someone mad at you lol I would check your brake lines just to be safe they could have cut the powersteering hose, the vac pump hose , and a break line especially if the brake pedal went to the floor .

good to here you saved yourself and your truck lucky there was a pasture and not a rock cut!
 
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Old Aug 19, 2008 | 05:19 AM
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brake pedal is stiff not mushy!! ?
A stiff brake pedal is cause by low vacuum unless you have a Hyro-Boost off a
super duty...that's powered by the power steering pump.
 
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Old Aug 19, 2008 | 04:55 PM
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It was the vac pump and now good!!!! Thanks for the help!!!!
 
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