I was just sitting out on the porch with my evening beverage, and told my wife exactly that. She said, "You never do that kind of thing, why did you do it this time?" Uh, cause I was stupid.....

--R

Tom Hargrave wrote:
You do know what the acronym ASSUME stands for, don't you?

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From: mercedes-boun...@okiebenz.com [mailto:mercedes-boun...@okiebenz.com]
On Behalf Of Rich Thomas
Sent: Saturday, March 07, 2009 5:39 PM
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Subject: [MBZ] I am stupid

So about a year ago I put a ("new") used brake booster on the 300TD after spending a lot of time chasing a no-brake-boost problem, and finally decided it was the brake booster after huge amounts of effort on that. Put on a new one and it was fine. So a few weeks ago same problem, and no shutoff, I figured the used booster I put on had crapped out too. Ordered one from the list mom, put it on last weekend, still no brake boost. sh*t. So today I put the previous one back on and started chasing vac problems again with the vac meter, and by isolating things it seems to be related to the lock system (they have never really worked) or something else not very critical, maybe in the HVAC system (which is not working either for some time. I plugged off one tee going to the locks, have a bit better vac now but still not what it should be, and the car will shut off when I rev it a bit. Brakes seem to be OK, but I gotta bleed them now, again.

So Occam's razor proves correct once again, I should have taken a look at that first. But I am really good now at changing brake boosters and master cylinders, in particular that last nut way up under the pedal bracket that you have to contort to get at.

--R

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