re: fluid in brake booster

["Giller,Bruce C." <bgiller@domain.elided>]

Simon,
	What you found inside your brake booster is brake fluid, not oil.  Your
old master brake cylinder was leaking out the rear seal and the vacuum
in the brake booster is pulling the fluid inside.  Had your brake fluid
been disappearing?  Then you've found it!

	Get a turkey baster and suck out all the juicy fluids from the booster.
 Then soak up the remaining fluid with paper towels until gone.  No need
to get another booster unless it no longer holds a vacuum; no harm was
done to the booster by the brake fluid.

	Bruce

	'86 Spider
	'73 GTV

 
> A little while back I was replacing the brake master cylinder on my 91 
> Spider because it had developed a small leak. Being basically a boy at 
> heart, and with the small opening of my brake booster where the brake 
> master cylinder attaches to right in front of me, I put my finger in there. 
> I found maybe a half inch of oil sloshing around in the bottom of the brake 
> booster. The brakes are fine.
> Should I replace the brake booster?
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