Rebuilding brake boosters

[Jay Mackro <jmackro@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 03:58 PM 11/10/98 -0500, "dms" <dms@domain.elided> wrote:

>there is a place that'll rebuild it for you:

>Subject: Alpha Booster
>   Date: Sun, 25 Oct 1998 16:17:59 EST
>   From: PWRENCH@domain.elided
>
>What we can do is
>rebuild your booster. The price is $149.95 + Tax and shipping.
>please feel free to use our Toll Free # 1-877-Brake.
>  Power Brake Service
>  199 NE 32 ct
>  Oakland PK. FL.
>    33334

So, has anyone actually used Power Brake Service?  I would assume
that Alfa used a generic, booster that was common to many other, 
more common, European vehicles, and as such, Power Brake Service
is familiar with rebuilding these things for Audis, Volvos (can I 
say that word here?), and the like.  Do their rebuilds hold up?  
The cost is less than half the price of a new booster, so it does 
seem appealing.  My booster has long since given up the ghost, due 
to the dreaded brake fluid poisoning.  I keep driving it - you should
see my right leg! - but someday I really ought to get it fixed.

Jay Mackro

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