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Originally Posted by carpoor
Holy crap Eric, I bet you about shat yourself. Any idea as to why that would have happened?
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Honestly don't know what happened. Obviously the casting cracked and allowed the accumulator to rocket off, but as to why is a guess at this point.
I am now in the process of going back quite a few decades in technology and converting to manual brakes on that car. Don't want to run a booster and the manual pedal feel should be better at the track anyway.
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Originally Posted by flash
Wow ,that is scary .
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Definitely could have been bad if I had been working around the front of the car! The vette always draws a crowd at the track so also good no spectators were standing around when it went off. Also thankful all that power steering fluid did not catch fire on the headers!
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Originally Posted by mestorod70
Wow on the hydroboost eric.
Ive worked on quite a few over the years and never seen that happen.
Thats the accumulator cylinder that blew off correct?
Gota be a bad check valve that didnt bleed pressure down
But would love to know for sure.
Please let us know what you find out.
atb...mick.
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Yeah, this is a first for me as well... I found the blue internal valve laying behind the motor once I started cleaning up. Did not appear to be damaged so not really sure what happened.