It is very easy to check if your pump is faulty if you have a vacuum guage. You can't feel much vacuum if you put your finger at the end of the big vacuum line, you can feel a "little". OK, you do have a vacuum gauge. So disconnect the big line from the vacuum brake booster. Clean and easy to do. Hook your gauge up to one of the small outlets, usually there are two of them. Use either one, and block off the other one. Start the engine, hold your finger over the open end on the big line. Instantly you should have between 15 and 22 inches of vacuum. Weather and altitude can change it a little, but with that hook up you should show a good vacuum. If you don't the pump is not doing its job, and rebuilt pumps cost about as much as a new pump, now selling for a little less then $400.00. I do have a good used one for sale.

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