Hello everyone.
So my brake booster died yesterday. I hit the brakes and the pull from the vacuum almost killed the car. I pulled over, opened the hood and the booster hisses and causes the engine to die when I hit the pedal. I'm fairly sure that this is what's been causing the bouncy tac since the issue seemed to happened mostly when the car was stopped with brakes on.
So I'm going to replace the booster but it doesn't have a check valve on the hose. Does it need this? The car didn't have one when I initially took it apart. The only valve I can find is $38 on Honda Parts Now, otherwise the only thing I can find is this:
http://www.carparts.com/details/Hond...3-1642573.html
Will this work or should I just forget about the valve?
EDIT: Did some reading and the check valve keeps vacuum in the booster in case the engine goes out. My brakes have basically 100% failed when the engine goes out so I purchased the check valve from Honda Parts Now to hopefully prevent a rather scary situation from happening again. I've also read on this forum that the booster can cause the tac to bounce if the valve isn't there so that's another reason to add it in. Maybe it will also fix my weirdo high gear surge issues? We'll find out!
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