Scott.
During my journey into parting out my 85, I did a quick visual of the
pressure limiting valve.
Can this part can be tested?

The brakes were iffy on this van when I test drove it, (MC and/or rears) so
I wasn't about to "ham" on the brakes to see how well the regulator worked!

Just curious.

Thanks,

Neil.

On Dec 10, 2007 8:41 PM, Scott Daniel - Shazam <scottdaniel@turbovans.com>
wrote:

> You got the right idea.
> I'd call that the 'pressure limiting valve' for the rear brakes.
> Evidently they got no rust-prevention treatment, and are bare cast iron.
> I'd scrub it with a metal wire brush to get it to bare metal, then treat
> is
> with a rust treatment that turns it to premiered metal, then paint it.
>  In situ if possible.
> Scott
> www.turbovans.com
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf Of
> Allan Streib
> Sent: Monday, December 10, 2007 8:13 PM
> To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> Subject: badly rusted mystery part
>
> Looking around under the front end of my '91 Vanagon GL, I noticed a
> very rusted part, evidently part of the brake system, since it has
> two steel brake lines connected to it.  This mystery part is mounted
> on the right frame rail near the sway bar.  Is this the "pressure
> regulator" that I see on a couple of the parts web sites?  The rust
> is just falling off it in chunks unusual because there is not really
> much rust anywhere else under the front.  Do they normally rust so
> badly?
>
> Allan
>

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