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Old 06-17-2008, 04:52 PM   #11 (permalink)
goneballistic
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Originally Posted by ponyuk View Post
Could brake pressure drop if braking hard (say going down a steep hill) when the engine was only idling?

Vacuum off an engine intake manifold is rather high at an idle. When I was a kid we had a '61 Mercury with vacuum powered windshield wipers. They would slow down to a craw under acceleration.
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