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

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in the USA the bus got a booster along with the disc brakes in 1971

Bob

On Thu, 4 Sep 2014, Robert Mann wrote:

> Date: Thu, 4 Sep 2014 12:08:38 +1200
> From: Robert Mann <robtmann7 at gmail.com>
> To: VW type 2 late aircooled <type2 at type2.com>
> Subject: Re: [T2] Engine intermittently turns off while coming to a stop
> 
> 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).
>
>
> -- 
> Robt Mann
> Whangaparaoa, New Zealand
> '73 VW 1600dp Devon camper
> '53 Meteor V8
> various Jawa-CZ and Jawa-NZ strokers
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