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Brake boost gone - contact cleaned - all ok. 700 1989

posted by  Andrew in AL on  Tue Jul 18 00:47 CST 2006
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I made an answer to another post with this info, but I thought it might be info others could use.

I was messing with my instrument cluster on my 760 - had it out. When I put it back in, started the car - all seemed well to start. I drove out of the drive and almost hit a car in the back as it would hardly stop at all - very hard pedal. It was if the master cylinder was not working. The ABS light then came on. I drove on - the brakes seemed to then be OK, light still on. I stopped, re-cranked the car - the light went off, but came on again a few miles down the road. With this my speedo went nuts and finally quit.

Later back home I pulled the cluster back out, cleaned some contacts - and put it back in carefully. All is back to good.

What surprised me was some contacts on the back of the cluster - apparently not making good contact - and having so much effect on the brakes.
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' Of all bad men religious bad men are the worst. '' (C S Lewis ; on Evil Men) 89 764 (158K), '94 940T (240K), 85 245 (219K)






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