Servo problem

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tony g
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Servo problem

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Hello, on my sprint the servo has never worked. As I have a trackerjack set up it's never really bothered me and it doesn't take excess foot effort to brake nice. So the other day I thought I'd check the servo with a vacuum hand pump. The gauge went quickly into vacuum which I thought was odd as the area to "pull" against is large compared to the pumps couple of strokes. I then checked the servo on my other sprint in the same way and it took loads of pumps to register a small amount of vac, but held it once there. Can the diaphragm in the servo be stuck in a forward position (towards the master cylinder) and hence have very little air in there to "pull) against?
BTW I pulled the one way valve out of the non working servo and it worked as it should ie no vac until I blocked the end and also I could not blow through it. Any ideas?

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Tony
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