[T2] Engine intermittently turns off while coming to a stop

[Robert Mann]

Max Bronsema
>will start checking the vacuum lines and eventually the booster if 
>need be. Thank you
>for the complete procedures to follow. I'll report back anything I find
>that is of interest.

	A moral of this thread may be, don't avoid the unboosted T2 
which properly maintained works fine and evades the difficulties 
which are emerging in the vac boost gear.
	 I can see the vacuum brake-boost is difficult and 
potentially expensive.  I just keep remarking on the brief 'window of 
opportunity' in the early 1970s e.g my '73  -  at long last the 
heaviest type made by VW gets disc brakes where they've been so 
sorely needed, on the front wheels; and in the initial version there 
is no assist.  I'm only 80 kg and can all too readily lock the rear 
wheels when braking, and the unboosted performance strikes me as 
good, with pedal pressure I can readily muster.
	Nobody is saying the boosted brakes are OK when the boost is 
not working.  Whether the vac-boost paraphernalia can be dispensed 
with, reverting to something like the 'golden era of simplicity' 
enjoyed by us '73 unboosteds, I doubt.  So Max and the majority will 
continue to teach how to repair this core safety system (on those 
vehicles that have them).


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Robt Mann
Whangaparaoa, New Zealand
'73 VW 1600dp Devon camper
'53 Meteor V8
various Jawa-CZ and Jawa-NZ strokers