Brake Booster Protection

[Lewis's Friend]

Hi all. Over the next week or so, I'm going to be changing my scabby brake booster (always assuming I've bought the right one). I was planning on looking at making a little splash guard for it too, to try and protect it from rotting out from underneath.

Then a brilliant idea/sad display of utter stupidity came to me. Could I just mask off a suitable portion of the booster and stonechip it? It should offer water protection, and some impact protection if anything got flung up at it.

Is this a stupid idea though!? I look forward to your thoughts...

[Lewis's Friend]

GreenV8S said:

Do you have wheel arch inner liners fitted?

I do indeed. I believe having the bottom rot out of the boosters is quite common on S Series though?

Mine seems to be the original one in fairness, but if I can protect the new one it seemed worth it.

[Lewis's Friend]

Thanks for the feedback chaps. The Raptor stuff looks very interesting, but it seems to need a spray gun. Sadly I don't have those facilities.

It is also quite true to say the original booster has lasted pretty well. Really, I thought that if by some miracle my car lasts another 25 years or so, replacements may be extremely rare!

I may say that having looked today, the bottom of the booster is not good. Though beaten soundly into second place by the master cylinder for titanic-like levels of grot on it (though happily only surface)! It reminded me of the Trabant all over again...!