Power Brake Booster: Removal
- Remove the air cleaner cover and hose to the throttle body.
- Remove the air cleaner housing by pulling straight up.
- Disconnect negative battery cable.
- Unlatch the power distribution center, lift it up, and move it to the side.
- Remove the master cylinder. See MASTER CYLINDER .
- For vehicles equipped with ABS, remove ICU and ICU mounting bracket. See appropriate ANTI-LOCK article in BRAKES.
- Continue for all vehicles, disconnect the vacuum hoses from the check valve on the power brake booster, but do not remove the check valve from power brake booster. See Fig 1 .
- Inside the vehicle, remove the silencer pad below the knee blocker.
- Fold down and remove the knee blocker.
- Locate the brake pedal-to-power brake booster input rod attachment under the instrument panel. Position a small screwdriver under the center tang of the retaining clip. See Fig 2 . Rotate the screwdriver enough to allow the retaining clip tang to pass over the end of the brake pedal pin. Remove the clip.
- Remove the 4 nuts attaching the power brake booster to the instrument panel. See Fig 3 . The nuts are accessible from under the instrument panel in the area of the brake pedal bracket.
- Slide the power brake booster forward until mounting studs clear the instrument panel, then remove it from the vehicle.
CAUTION:
Discard the used retaining clip, it is not to be reused. Replace the clip with a new one on reassembly.