Bendix booster. Rebuild?

[kab69440]

Does anyone know if there is a rebuild kit or service available for Bendix boosters. My "new" ragtop leaks vacuum through there so bad you can hear it over the engine. Having never rebuilt one before, does a man need any specialized equipment to get one apart?

[Just 6T9 CHGR]

http://boosterdeweyexchange.com/

[resq302]

I agree.  There is no easy way to rebuilt the Bendix boosters and you will need to have someone to do it.

[Hard Charger]

just an FYI
s new Bendix style like yours is $300 at Pirate Jacks.

[resq302]

yes, but the new reproduction of the Bendix unit is not exact in appearance.  The front half is dead on but the back is not stepped like the original.

[Hard Charger]

don't look at the back.

[kab69440]

I am not terribly concerned about some extraneous flaw that only a chronic anal retentive would notice. I am all about "what gets the job done". If I had a completely different but still interchange-ably functional part on hand, I'd swap it out and never give it a second thought. Nice to know there is something new that can just be slapped on and will work.

[vick79]

I got mine from Boosterdewey, great guy. If you don't care about it being a Bendix, O'Reillys sells cardone functionally equivalent units relatively cheap.

[resq302]

I got mine from Boosterdewey, great guy. If you don't care about it being a Bendix, O'Reillys sells cardone functionally equivalent units relatively cheap.

I wouldn't put my life behind something that Cardone rebuilds!  I've had way too many things from them, not only brake stuff reman'd that did not work or only lasted a month.

[kab69440]

Well, your life doesn't depend on the booster itself. It just makes the pedal softer. Tba master will work regardless of booster condition.

[resq302]

True, however, Cardone also reman's the master cylinder, brake boosters, power steering pumps, power steering boxes, etc.  What is to say that you press on your breaks and then get a huge vacuum leak due to a bad rebuild?  I have had about everything that was rebuilt by them crap out within a couple of months.  Booster and master cylinder included.  Most recent and last one was the master cylinder that crapped out on me and ended up like a pump, taking fluid from one reservoir and filling the other to the point of over filling it and leaking all over the place.  Sorry, but I learned my lesson with them and will have my stuff rebuilt by someone reputable!