Craig,

The only way you will get brake fluid into the engine is if it leaks
past the master cylinder cups, past the piston and in to the booster.
Could there be a chance that the booster got filled from the old master
cylinder leaking?  I know, why wasn't it smoking before?

I think you are going to have to pull the M/C back out and look for
fluid coming out where the push rod goes in.

Walt

craig cowan wrote:

>So i just put on a brand new FTE brand brake master cylinder, 'bench bled'
>it, opened up all my bleeders untill i had a good flow of fluid coming
>through, and then i started my engine to see what would happen.....
>And SMOKE! I had a nice cloud of smoke coming out of my engine and thought
>"Wait, the only thing i've done since parking this a few days ago was work
>on the brakes...."
>Well one thing led to another and i pulled the vaccuum line that goes from
>the brake booster to the intake manifold, plugged the hole in the intake
>manifold (Mercedes Benz Wheel Lugs work perfect for this!), and started the
>engine. I ran it untill it no longer smoked then shut it down. I plugged the
>brake booster line back in, and started it back up. Surely enough, after a
>bit, SMOKE. So i'm burning brake fluid.
>I assume this to be REALLY bad for my engine, but can't be sure that if it
>was just some spilled fluid in the line, that it hasn't been fully burnt
>yet. I haven't ran it long enough to see if it effects fluid level, but it
>smokes alot.
>I haven't really checked the pedal yet to see if that feels bad, i just
>assumed it needs a good proper bleeding...... But that's no good if the
>master's a dud.
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>What do you guys think?
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>-Craig
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