**** **** **** **** I was driving to work today and came to a red light and BAM my brake booster exploded. Flew right through the intersection, barely missed oncoming traffic, paked the car in the middle of the road and then I couldnt keep it running because of the extreme vaccuum leak.


On that note anybody know how much Pick-N-Pull charges for a brake booster?

Sorry just needed to vent. At least I got my Hardees Philly Cheese Steak burger today.

 

Philly Cheese Steak burge that sounds good right now.
Any way at least it did not hit any other cars

 

ry dude...wtf..your car is having so many problems right now...this and the wipers...wtf man

 

and lets not forget the cracked windshield

*EDIT*

I feel dumb, the brake booster didnt go bad after all. A motor mount broke and when the engine torqued it pulled on the vaccuum line that goes to the brake booster. It eventually pulled the vaccuum line apart where it connects in the middle of the firewall, I just didnt see it when i was looking at it on the side of the road.

 

someone should start a, "i felt dumb when" thread. at least is just a mount so hockey puck time.

 

damn, mounts can just go out like that? *

Hockey pucks are pretty crazy. There bearable but still. Everything vibrates and shakes. Sometimes i wish i just had stock mounts.

 

I dont think I will be able to handle hockey pucks, I'm looking for something stiffer than stock but not solid. In my defense i didnt know there was a connector in the middle of the vaccuum line and from the angle I was looking at it I couldnt see the connector. I noticed it as I was walking back to the car when I had the hood open. But yeah, I reconnected it and was like "how the eff does a vaccuum line just come disconnected?" so my dad told me to hold the brake and rev it up in gear, and the motor torqued so much it ripped the hose right off again. I havent actually gotten under the car yet but we think its a motor mount, either that or the vaccuum hose REALLY shrunk.

 

Money on busted mount. Sucks to hear about that though, glad to hear you didnt hit any crossing traffic tho bro!

 

^yeah thanks man, I know one of the heartbreakers made a write up on custom motor mounts but I can't find it.

 

why not just pick up a set of nismo mounts, 200 from PDM.

 

I would rather spend that $200 somewhere else. I still need a flywheel for my 5 speed swap. I saw Donnie's thread on filling the stock mounts, I'll have to ask him how that was.

 

damn ry thats crazy i wana know how the hell it made it out of the engine compartment. if my stock mounts were good id give them to u cause i got nismo's sorry bud

 

The engine mount? It didnt, it just went bad(either the rubber tore or the stud broke) and now theres like 5 inches of back and forth motion when the engine's under load. Enough to pull the vaccuum line apart with ease. Right now we got a hose clamp on it and we loosened it from the firewall, its not coming apart any time soon, but regardless it still needs to be fixed properly.

 

god damn dude lol