Brake assist systems depend on vacuum pumps, which serve as essential components. Failures reduce brake performance, trigger fault detection codes, and affect vacuum-based systems. Regular maintenance ...

If you have a ground-pounding big-block or other performance engine, then you may have had the moment in life when you push the brake pedal in a parking lot or at a traffic light and it does ...

In the quest for that "rumpity-rump" sound, and all the performance that goes with it, your engine will more than likely lose the consistent flow of vacuum needed to aid your foot when the time comes ...

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration says it has launched an investigation into about 2.7 million General Motors trucks and SUVs after receiving more than 100 complaints concerning brake ...

On Sep. 6, General Motors notified dealers they will need to resolve an issue with a vacuum brake assist pump that makes it more difficult to engage the braking system and increases the risk for a ...

In principle, industrial vacuum pumps are merely compressors run with the inlet attached to the vacuum system and the outlet open to exhaust. In smaller sizes, compressors and vacuum pumps are often ...