Brake Booster Vacuum Leak?

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Old Dec 5, 2012 | 08:12 PM
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Brake Booster Vacuum Leak?

I changed my front calipers last weekend, bleed the lines, and noticed a hissing sound coming from the master cylinder area shortly thereafter. I finally had the time to look at it more closely today since I didn't saw any fluid leak or loss of braking ability at the time. After feeling around the area to find where the air leak was coming from, I found that the hissing sound was coming from in between the master cylinder and brake booster. The hissin sound would go away a few seconds after turning off the engine. What can be the cause of this problem?
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Old Dec 10, 2012 | 09:16 AM
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No one ever had this problem before? I'm thinking there may be a seal between the master cylinder and booster...
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Old Dec 10, 2012 | 09:21 AM
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your assumption might prove to be correct.

there are lots of seals in the brake booster.
if one goes bad, you could be searching for a leak/air in the lines for days
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Old Jan 14, 2013 | 05:28 PM
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I also had a problem with my brake booster, I got a used one from car-part.com.

https://acurazine.com/forums/1g-tl-problems-fixes-118/brake-booster-help-786282/
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Old Jan 14, 2013 | 06:20 PM
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Mines still work normally, just loose the ability to brake once car engine is off.
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Old Jan 14, 2013 | 07:03 PM
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When I had this same problem the car will still brake but the pedal will go all the way down to the floor and also won't stop like right away.
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